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Overview of Flow Control

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Control frames are a unique type of Ethernet frame, defined in clause 31 of the IEEE 802.3- 2005 standard. Control frames are differentiated from other frame types by a defined value placed in the length/type field (MAC Control Type code). Figure 6-2illustrates the control frame format.

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A pause control frame is a unique type of control frame, identified by a defined value placed in the MAC Control opcode field.

Note: MAC Control opcodes other than for pause (flow control) frames have recently been defined for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks.

The MAC control parameter field of the pause control frame contains a 16-bit field containing a binary value directly related to the pause duration. This defines the number of pause_quantum (512 bit times of the particular implementation). For 1-Gigabit Ethernet, a single pause_quantum corresponds to 512 ns.

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UG144 specifications

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