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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

TSE MAC promble

Hi,guys! I want use the TSE MAC to transceive a raw ethernet frame,which is built manually.According to the IEEE standard the frames must be separated by an interpacket gap.So, I wonder whether t...
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15 years ago

I use TSE MAC (and also different MACs on other systems) in a similar way by I never worried about interpacket gap.

I suppose the MAC itself handles it. You only need to take care that the frame is correctly built and pad it with zeros if too short: if I remember correctly it must be at least 64 bytes long.

Cris