No, frame delimiting is a primary responsibility of the Logical Link Control sublayer of the Data Link Layer..
Data link layer exists of 2 sublayers; Media Acces control Sublayer (MAC) & Logical Link Control sublayer (LLC)
What are two primary responsibilities of the Ethernet MAC sublayer? (Choose two.)
MAC provides physical addressing. The BIA (Burn In Address) which is stored in RAM when the computer boots up is added to each frame that is created as the source mac address. But to answer your question, the MAC layer does the following: Data Encapsulation and Media Access Control.
In IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, the Medium Access Control (MAC) sublayer consists of two main components: the MAC Control sublayer and the MAC Data sublayer. The MAC Control sublayer is responsible for managing access to the shared wireless medium and handling frame control, while the MAC Data sublayer is tasked with the encapsulation and transmission of data frames. Together, these components ensure efficient communication and coordination among devices in a wireless network.
MAC sublayer is located at Data link layer.
The Data Link layer of the OSI model has been subdivided into the Logical Link Control (LLC) sublayer and the Media Access Control (MAC) sublayer. The LLC sublayer is responsible for providing error control and flow control, while the MAC sublayer manages access to the physical transmission medium and the addressing of devices on the network. This division allows for more efficient data handling and communication in network environments.
LLC (Logical Link Control) sublayer - The LLC provides a common interface and supplies reliability andflow control services.Hope this helps,A. York
No, the MAC (Media Access Control) sublayer is not responsible for the ordered delivery of frames. Its primary function is to manage access to the physical transmission medium and handle frame encapsulation, addressing, and error detection. Ordered delivery is typically managed by higher layers of the OSI model, such as the Transport layer, specifically by protocols like TCP.
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* MAC sublayer(802.3): defines how to transmit data on physical layer * LLC sublayer(802.2): responsible for identifying different protocol logically & encapsulate them.
A MAC address is unique to your ethernet card. MAC addresses are used within an Ethernet network to uniquely identify the source and destination of Ethernet frames. ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) is used on IP networks to map IP addresses to MAC addresses within an Ethernet network.
IEEE 802.3 is the standard for Ethernet LAN. It is a collection of IEEE standards for physical layer and Data link layer's MAC sublayer. According to these standards, the Ethernet LAN card works. IEEE 802.4 is a Token Bus standard which was standardised by IEEE. It grants the Bus physical topology to use token messages to access physical layer.
The MAC sublayer is part of Layer 2 - Data Link Layer - but it is more correct to say that the MAC address is the physical address.