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Re: preamble management attributes




Sanjeev-

Regarding your proposal for a preambleError attribute

This looks like a MAC attribute to me that would have to be exclusive to 10 
GbE.
This has the result of making MAC characteristics appear to be speed dependent.

I consider this to be a generally bad idea unless there is a truly 
compelling argument to the contrary.

Nothing that I have seen on the previous thread has convinced me that we 
need to depart from the historical Ethernet stance, i.e. transmitting MACs 
are required to supply the specified full preamble. Receiving stations 
should be designed able to cope with something different. This is in line 
with good design practice that says you should be precise in your 
compliance on the transmission side and generous on your forgiveness of 
minor violations on the receiving side. This is a general rule for 
designing robust systems. In addition, it aligns to lower speed practice 
which allows bit loss in the physical transmission system. The more 10 GbE 
is like lower speed Ethernet the better job we have done in fulfilling our 
mandate

Measuring loss of preamble in management has not been considered in the 
past because it wouldn't tell you much of anything useful. I don't see that 
there has been a change for 10 GbE.

Geoff

At 01:01 PM 3/29/01 -0800, Sanjeev Mahalawat wrote:
>Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 13:01:15 -0800
>To: "Booth, Bradley" <bradley.booth@xxxxxxxxx>, stds-802-3-hssg@xxxxxxxx
>From: Sanjeev Mahalawat <sanjeev@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: preamble management attributes
>
>Hi Brad,
>
>At 11:46 AM 03/29/2001 -0800, Booth, Bradley wrote:
> >
> >I guess I'm just surprised that preamble has suddenly become so important.
> >To me, the Ethernet frame has always been more important to the MAC than the
> >Ethernet packet.  If we're going to put so much importance on the preamble,
> >then should we be added management attributes for it?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Brad
> >
>
>I support you to add management attribute for preamble in
>DTE MAC Sublayer Management facilities Subclause with
>object preambleError with highest priority. Means if a frame with
>bad preamble length (less than 7 bytes for MAC) and/or no
>SFD byte is received the frame is dropped by the MAC and only
>counter incremented for the dropped frame.
>
>For that matter I have changed the thread for further comments
>if this is to proceed.
>
>Thanks,
>Sanjeev