What is the Ethernet protocol?

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What is the Ethernet protocol?

Answer 1

Let me guess first..then I'll go Search-that..

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Ethernet Protocol..//

Password..Network Sharing..Bandwith..Security//

..as a guess..//

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I'll go look that up..

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I like these terms../

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Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE)

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Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) provides the ability to connect a network of hosts, over a simple bridging access device, to a Remote Access Concentrator. With this ability, each host utilizes its own point-to-point stack and the user is presented with a familiar user interface. Access control, billing, and type of service can be managed on a per-user, rather than a per-site, basis.

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Point-to-Point Protocol

Windows CE 5.0Send Feedback

Microsoft® Windows® CE supports the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP). PPP is a member of the TCP/IP protocol suite. It specifies an industry-standard suite of control protocols that were designed to facilitate communication between two computers through a serial, network, or infrared interface in a dynamically changing network. A Windows CE–based device running Remote Access Service (RAS) uses PPP to package data packets from multiple protocols and forward them to a server over point-to-point links. PPP is an improvement over Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) in its error detection capability and its ability to handle both synchronous and asynchronous communication. Windows CE supports IP connections that use PPP. The PPP encryption support in Windows CE is configurable between 128 bit and 40 bit.



PPP relies on configuration parameters and peer-to-peer negotiation to determine how a specific PPP connection will be managed. PPP allows two computers that are linked to each other to negotiate specific characteristics of their connection, such as the maximum size of datagrams one peer is willing to accept. Peer-to-peer negotiations occur through packet exchanges between two computers until both computers have agreed on a set of parameters under which the connection will operate. PPP provides a default format for the encapsulation of datagrams, but two peers in a given link can also establish their own guidelines for PPP framing.



PPP supports IPv6. For more information about IPv6, see Core Protocols of IPv6 and IPv6 Addressing.

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Copied from the Microsoft[tm] website/08/22/2010

Answer 2

Ethernet is a Data link (Layer 2) level protocol used in most (if not all) modern local area networks. It provides a method of transmitting data from upper layer protocols across a wire* from one machine on a LAN to another. Ethernet, like every other modern protocol uses a series of packets to transfer data. Each packet contains a source and destination address, various control messages and payload. The source and destination address are the MAC addresses of the machines sending and receiving the data.



The word Ethernet is a bit misleading because we think of the "ether" as being the air. When you shout something, it goes out into the ether... Anyway they call it Ethernet because when a machine wants to send a packet, it "shouts" it out over the wire and all other machines "hear" it. Therefore, when any machine is sending a message no other machine can at the same time. Only the machine to which the packet is addresses will accept the packet. All others will drop it.



*The wires used in Ethernet have evolved over time. From thick coax to regular coax to unshielded twisted pair (UTP) and as the quality of UTP has increased (and the science behind the NIC cards) so has the speed from 10 to 100 and now 1000 Mbps.

Answer 3

Ethernet protocol is just a fancy name for the system that allows you to use an Ethernet connection to achieve an Internet connection..

Answer 4

very confusing problem. try searching into google. it can assist!

Answer 5

IEEE 802.3