The Logical Link Control (LLC) is an interface to the Media Access Control (MAC) layer. The MAC is also hardware, because the functions are embedded in the transceiver chips. See IEEE 802 , SNA ...

The Data Link Layer is one of my favorite layers of the OSI Model. Like a father who loves ALL of his children equally, but in different ways, I also love the other layers, but Layer 2 will always ...

The technical name of a frame of data transmitted over the data link layer (layer 2) in a communications network. Ethernet and Token Ring are examples of this layer. Many people neither use the ...