Ethernet drivers support the following
features and standards:
Ethernet and IEEE 802.3
packet format
Physical layer identified
as 10Base5 (ThickWire), 10Base2 (ThinWire), and 10BaseT (twisted-pair)
Fast Ethernet physical
layer identified as type 100BaseTX
Gigabit Ethernet physical
layer identified as 1000BaseT for unshielded twisted-pair (UTP), 1000BaseSX
for multimode fiber-optic cables
Gigabit and 10 Gigabit
Ethernet implementation of jumbo frames, a de facto industry standard
using a maximum frame size larger than the standard Ethernet maximum
of 1518 bytes, generally up to 9018 bytes
FDDI drivers support the following features and
standards:
FDDI packet format
Transmission and reception
of frame control (FC) priority
ANSI X3.166-1990 FDDI
Physical Layer Medium Dependent (PMD)
Token Ring drivers support the following features
and standards:
IEEE 802.5 packet format
Transmission and reception
of priority bits in the access control (AC) field and the frame control
(FC) field
Transmission of source
routing header information
Reception of route information
(RI)
ATM drivers over ELAN support the following features
and standards:
Ethernet and IEEE 802.3
packet format
UNI Version 3.0 or 3.1
signaling protocol
LAN emulation (LANE) Version
1.0
Maximum frame sizes of
1516, 4544, and 9234 bytes
All LAN drivers support the following features:
802.2 packet format
IEEE 802.2 Class I service
including the unnumbered information (UI), exchange identification
(XID) commands and responses, and TEST commands and responses
IEEE 802.2 Class II service
may be specified where the functions are provided by the user application
