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Overview of Flow Control
Pause Control Frames
Control frames are a unique type of Ethernet frame, defined in clause 31 of the IEEE 802.3-
2005 standard. Control frames are differentiated from other frame types by a defined value
placed in the length/type field (MAC Control Type code).
frame format.
A pause control frame is a unique type of control frame, identified by a defined value
placed in the MAC Control opcode field.
Note:
for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks.
The MAC control parameter field of the pause control frame contains a 16-bit field
containing a binary value directly related to the pause duration. This defines the number of
pause_quantum (512 bit times of the particular implementation). For 1-Gigabit Ethernet,
a single pause_quantum corresponds to 512 ns.
1-Gigabit Ethernet MAC v8.5 User Guide
UG144 April 24, 2009
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6 OCTETS
6 OCTETS
2 OCTETS
2 OCTETS
44 OCTETS
4 OCTETS
Figure 6-2: MAC Control Frame Format
MAC Control opcodes other than for pause (flow control) frames have recently been defined
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Figure 6-2
DESTINATION
ADDRESS
SOURCE
ADDRESS
LENGTH/TYPE
MAC CONTROL
TRANSMITTED
OPCODE
TOP-TO-BOTTOM
MAC CONTROL
PARAMETERS
RESERVED
(transmitted as zeroes)
FRAME CHECK
SEQUENCE
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illustrates the control
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