On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Bob Ammerman wrote:

> I have been deeply involved in the thread about the 'open source emWare like
> project'  (in fact I started it :-), but I have been thinking about another
> end of the spectrum (I've noticed most spectra end up with many more than
> two ends :-).

Ain't it the truth??  8-)

> Anybody know where to go to get the details of the physical level of the
> Ethernet?

> How about the data link level (ie: preamble, framing bits, CRC computation,
> collision resolution, etc)?

http://www.techfest.com/networking/lan/ethernet.htm
http://www.techfest.com/networking/lan/ethernet2.htm
http://www.acm.org/classics/apr96/

Dale
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