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From: chris@yarra.oz.au (Chris Jankowski)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: How an Ethernet controller knows where is CRC in a frame?
Message-ID: <65138@yarra.oz.au>
Date: 3 Sep 90 09:08:38 GMT
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp PL, Melb., Australia
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How an Ethernet controller knows where is the CRC in the frame?

I understand that the Ethernet frames do not have a data length field 
as the IEEE802.3 frames do (the field is used for protocol type).

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