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From: geof@imagen.UUCP (Geof Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Re: packet lengths
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Date: 22 Apr 88 17:49:25 GMT
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 > Your statement that the Ethernet (IEEE 802.3 as well?) requires packets to
 > be in integral number of 16-bit words long is incorrect.

On reference to the original Ethernet 1 spec, I stand corrected.  The packet
length is an integral number of octets.  I must have been thinking of the
3MB experimental ethernet, as you say.

- Geof