Ethernet

10GigE

10GBASE-T

• Reuses the existing 1000BASE-T MAC
• Full duplex only
• 4 connector, 4 twisted pairs (lanes) copper cabling
• 10-level PAM code (3 bits/symbol)
• Retains 8-state 4D trellis code across pairs
• 833 Mbaud, ~450MHz bandwidth
• Echo-cancelled transmission, FEXT cancellation
  • 10Gbps = 4 lanes * 833 Mbaud * 3 bits/baud

10GBASE-CX4

• Short distance copper twin-ax

GigE

• 5-level PAM code (2 bits/symbol)
• 125 Mbaud, ~80MHz bandwidth

Addresses

An address is unicast if the least significant bit of the first byte is 0. Otherwise, it is either broadcast:

• FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF: segment broadcast

or multicast:

Local Network Control Block (224.0.0/24)

• 01:00:5e:00:00:01 (224.0.0.1): All-Hosts
• 01:00:5e:00:00:02 (224.0.0.2): All-Routers
• (224.0.0.22): IGMP
• (224.0.0.251, ff02::fb): mDNS
• 33:33:00:01:00:02 (ff02::1:2): DHCPv6 server/relay

Locally-assigned Addresses

If the penultimately-significant bit is 1, the address is "locally assigned" (read: made up). This is used by the Linux kernel's rand_hw_addr() function, used by PPP and TAP.

See Also

• Ethernet page on the Wireshark wiki
• Ethernet is specified in the IEEE 802.3 standards
• "IEEE 802 10GBASE-T Tutorial" from the IEEE working group, 2003