Comment on Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 7 months agoEh, it’s both. Ethernet is layer 2. It is your MAC address, more or less. There’s some functionality to it beyond simple hardware addressing, but it provides a scaffold for other, higher layer protocols to operate on top of.
So ethernet, in and of itself is a protocol, and it also provides a framework for other protocols like IP.
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ah, that makes sense, thanks!