9.3 Supported Industry Standards
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Ethernet drivers support the following features and standards:
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 X3.139-1987 FDDI Media Access Control (MAC)
ANSI X3.148-1988 FDDI Physical Layer Protocol (PHY)
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
Six-byte destination and source address fields