Hello,
How is the end of an Ethernet II frame detected? The frame has no length field in it, and I'm wondering how its end is detected? Does the ethernet adapter detect when voltage transitions stop? Is there an idle state for the differential transmitter which is then detected? Something simpler than that even? The specification appears to include an interframe gap of 96 bit times -- is part of the reason for this gap to allow the ethernet adapter to detect the end of the frame?
Thanks very much!
Jim jpartan [at] gmail.com