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15 years ago

TSE MAC Destination Address

Hi everyone I'm using the TSE MAC to design a gigabit ethernet interface.But I don't know how to set the destination Address.Can anybody tell me?Thank you
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15 years ago

Do you really mean destination address? Or maybe you mean source address?

You normally set the last one, during board initialization.

Destination address instead depends on what type of ethernet protocol you are using. Examples:

If you application has a tcp/ip stack, than the stack itself will set addresses for you.

If your app sends and receives raw ethernet frames, then you manually build and decode each frame, so you can virtually set any address you want, both source and dest.

Cris