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Discussion Forum : Internetworking - Internetworking (Q.No. 14)
14.
Which fields are contained within an IEEE Ethernet frame header?
  1. Source and destination MAC address
  2. Source and destination network address
  3. Source and destination MAC address and source and destination network address
  4. FCS field
1 and 4
2 only
2 and 3 only
3 only
Answer: Option
Explanation:
An Ethernet frame has source and destination MAC addresses, an Ether-Type field to identify the Network layer protocol, the data, and the FCS field that holds the answer to the CRC.
Discussion:
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AngelThomas said:   2 years ago
I think option 2 is right.

There is no necessary to contain the destination MAC address in it. So, why does it have to contain the destination MAC? we only need the IP address and using ARP, we can get the next hop MAC address.

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