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IEEE 802.3 PAUSE frame

As you guessed, he timer is started after the completion of the station's own transmission.

See IEEE 802.3, Annex 31B, Figure 31B-2: The condition for entering the "PAUSE FUNCTION" state (where the timer is started) is gated by the expression "transmission_in_progress = false AND (DA = reserved_multicast_address or phys_Address)". Thus, the timer is not started until there is no transmission in progress.

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Hi,

Question regarding 802.3x MAC control frames: MAC controller receives PAUSE frame during own transmission of (another) frame. When pause timer with new pause_timer_value should be started? Immediately after valid RX PAUSE is received or rather after MAC finishes sending (probably this)?

thanks in advance,

Michal

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