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The purpose is the preamble signals to the receiving node that data is incoming and indicates when the data flow is about to begin. The SFD (start-of-frame delimiter) identifies where the data field begans.

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Q: What is the purpose of the 7-byte preamble and 1-byte start-of-frame delimiter on an Ethernet frame?
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