Known as a "layer 2 protocol," the data link protocol is responsible for ensuring that the bits and bytes received are identical to the bits and bytes sent. For example, in a local network ...

A couple posts ago, we talked about Layer 1 of the OSI Model — the Physical Layer. Today, we’ll start our climb up the Model with a visit to Layer 2, the Data Link Layer. The Data Link Layer ...

and Layer 2 Tuneling Protocol, that can carry Ethernet frames over IP. Tunneling is useful for carrying nonroutable legacy protocols, or IP packets with private addresses. Classical data link ...

Internet protocol (IP) packets are handed over to a data link layer protocol, for the physical transmission to the next node in the network path. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

Celestia and EigenLayer protocols increasingly allow consensus, execution, and data availability to be uncoupled. Modularity leaves space for a "Layer 3 stack" to store special requirements.

Compute nodes in AI and HPC data centers increasingly need ... but Ultra Ethernet is a UEC protocol.” The challenge there is that IEEE could, say, make some changes to its link layer after Ultra ...