Fast Link Pulses

￿Modern Ethernet NICs send bursts of Fast-Link-Pulses (FLP) consisting of 17-33 NLPs for Autonegotiation signalling

￿Each representing a 16 bit word

￿GE sends several "pages"

(C) Herbert Haas 2005/03/11

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A series of FLPs constitute an autonegotiation frame. The whole frame consists of 33 timeslots, where each odd numbered timeslot consists of a real NLP and each even timeslot is either a NLP or empty, representing 1 or 0. Thus, each FLP sequence consists of a 16 bit word.

Note that GE Ethernet sends several such "pages".

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