Functions Performed in The MAC Sublayer
According to 802.3-2002 section 4.1.4, the functions required of a MAC are:
- receive/transmit normal frames
- half-duplex retransmission and backoff functions
- append/check FCS (frame check sequence)
- interframe gap enforcement
- discard malformed frames
- append(tx)/remove(rx) preamble, SFD, and padding
- half-duplex compatibility: append(tx)/remove(rx) MAC address
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