Ethernet drivers support
the following features and standards:
Ethernet and IEEE 802.3 packet format
Physical layer identified as 10Base5 (ThickWire),
10Base2 (ThinWire), and 10BaseT (twisted pair)
Fast Ethernet physical layer identified as type
100BaseTX
Gigabit Ethernet's physical layer is identified
as 1000BaseT for unshielded twisted pair (UTP), 1000Base-SX for
multimode fiber-optic cables.
Gigabit Ethernet implementation of jumbo frames,
a defacto industry standard using a maximum frame size larger than
the standard Ethernet maximum of 1518 bytes.
FDDI drivers support the following features and standards:
FDDI packet format
Transmission and reception of frame control (FC)
priority
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