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Dear Readers,Pls help me with this one:The FCS filed in the Ethernet frame is used to detect corrupted frames. Now this FCS is a number which is arrived at after running a cyclic redundancy check(ie CRC). I would like to know whether the CRC is appli...
Hello Brandon,Thanks for the links. FCS computation indeed looks like involve all fileds of the frame, though some of my friends doubt this. rgdsSatish
Hello Yves,Thanks for your reply -it was certainly helpful. Do you have any idea how security could be enforced at the lower layer protocols?RgdsSatish
Hello Amit,Thanks very much for your reply.I am still not very convinced though. Lets say the payload contained 00001111 originally. Suppose someone tampered this data to change the bits to 11110000 -now even in this case, the above mentioned check w...
