What is Ethernet?

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Hello,

biermanoski wrote:
> Please, in simple terms. What exactly is Ethernet? I see it mentioned every
> so often in association with, 'Networking', but I don't know it's function?

Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet or
http://www.google.com/search?q=ethernet

Heiko

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Hi Jean,

biermanoski wrote:
> You didn't answer the question; I also had done both suggestions B/4 I posted!

Sorry, but what else could I tell than wikipedia does:

| General description
|
| Ethernet is based on the idea of peers on the network sending messages
| in what was essentially a radio system, captive inside a common wire
| or channel, sometimes referred to as the ether. (This is an oblique
| reference to the luminiferous aether through which 19th century
| physicists believed electromagnetic radiation traveled.) Each peer has
| a globally unique 48-bit key known as the MAC address factory-assigned
| to the network interface card, to ensure that all systems in an
| Ethernet have distinct addresses. Due to the ubiquity of Ethernet,
| many manufacturers build the functionality of an Ethernet card
| directly into PC motherboards.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet

OK:
There is the Internet. This is a Web of networks. There are some
standards to build a network. One of them is ethernet. The Ethernet
provides anything the network-layer (often the Internet Protokol IPv4)
needs.

Heiko