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Appendix A
Link — The transmission path between any two instances of generic cabling.
Multicast MAC Address — A class of MAC address that sends a packet to potentially more than one recipient. A group address is specified by setting the LSB of the first MAC address byte to 1. Thus,
Physical Layer and Media Notation — To identify different Ethernet technologies, a simple,
<data rate in Mb/s><medium type><maximum segment length (×100m)>
The definitions for the technologies mentioned in this document are in Table
| Table |
Term | Definition |
IEEE 802.3 Physical Layer specification for a 10 Mb/s CSMA/CD local area network over two pairs of | |
| |
IEEE 802.3 Physical Layer specification for a 100 Mb/s CSMA/CD local area network over two pairs of | |
| Category 5 unshielded |
Twisted pair | A cable element that consists of two insulated conductors twisted together in a regular fashion to form a |
| balanced transmission line. |
Port — Ethernet device.
Promiscuous Mode — EMAC receives frames that do not match its address.
118 | Glossary | SPRU941A |