The packet has many components that gives its true beauty. It has a preamble in which it has the introduction the packet. The Start Frame Delimiter which is the SFD is the 8-bit balue marking the end of the preamble of an ethernet frame. Then comes the destination MAC address where the location of where the packet will go to is present. The source MAC address is where the packet is initiating from. The Ethertype is a 2-bit text labeling the type of Ethernet protocol.
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