Talk:EtherType
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I seriously doubt that e.g. 802.3 is "the way we do IP traffic today" as was implied by this article prior to my changes. AFAIK Ethernet Version 2 is and remains the way most Internet Protocol networks are set up.
I do understand that the IEEE most dearly would like 802.3 to be used instead of Ethernet Version 2, and as writers of textbooks and the like tend to listen to people with big mouths they readily sometimes believe that 802.3 is a common protocol. It is not. Ethernet Version 2 is very very common though. It is the default behaviour of e.g. Microsoft Windows and Linux to use Ethernet Version 2.
Prove me wrong - empirically.
Taken from other 802.3 twiki: IEEE 802.3x-1997 allows the 16-bit field after the MAC addresses to be used as a type field or a length field, so that Ethernet II frames are also valid 802.3 frames in 802.3x-1997 and later versions of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard.
