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14 years ago

payload pad removal in Altera TSE

Hi all! I would like to know how payload pad removal works in the aLtera TSE IP. How does the TSE know the payload length if ethernet header field "length/type" carries a type info (e.g. 0...
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13 years ago

Sorry Socrates, but I think here you mean something different.

I think you mean the two byte which TSE puts in front of the Ethernet-Header to achive a 32-bit alignment.

In this case are the missing bytes meant, which are put at the end of the frame to achieve the minimum ethernet frame length of 64 byte.