Question

***Technologies, Infrastructure and Architecture***

The Layer 2 Message format is called the frame. Packets contain segments; frames contain those packets. Compare and contrast the Ethernet (802.3) frame format with the WiFi (802.11) frame format.

Answer 1

Characteristics	Ethernet (802.3) frame format	WiFi (802.11) frame format
Frame size	Low	High
Frame size payload	1,504 bytes	2,304 bytes
MAC addresing	simple	complex
Number of address fields in MAC header	Two	Four
Address fields	source address (SA), destination address (DA)	source address (SA), destination address (DA), transmitter address (TA), receiver address (RA)
Header size	14 bytes	32 bytes
Frame format