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RFC 1042

Network Working Group
Request for Comments: 1042

Obsoletes: RFC-948

J. Postel
J. Reynolds
ISI
February 1988

Status of this Memo

This RFC specifies a standard method of encapsulating the Internet Protocol (IP) [1] datagrams and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) [2] requests and replies on IEEE 802 Networks. This RFC specifies a protocol standard for the Internet community. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Acknowledgment

This memo would not exist with out the very significant contributions of Drew Perkins of Carnegie Mellon University, Jacob Rekhter of the T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corporation, and Joseph Cimmino of the University of Maryland.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Description
• Header Format
• Address Mappings
• The ARP Details
• Frame Format and MAC Level Issues
  • IEEE 802.2 Details
  • IEEE 802.3 Details
  • IEEE 802.4 Details
  • IEEE 802.5 Details
• Interoperation with Ethernet
• Appendix on Numbers
• References

• Original text document
• Complete HTML RFC (TAR, TGZ, or ZIP format)