LevelOne GEP-0950 User Manual

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SSAP, Control and Information. The DSAP address field identifies the one or more
service access points, in which the I/G bit indicates it is individual or group address.
If all bit of DSAP is 1s, it’s a global address. The SSAP address field identifies the
specific services indicated by C/R bit (command or response). The DSAP and
SSAP pair with some reserved values indicates some well-known services listed in
the table below.

0xAAAA

SNAP

0xE0E0

Novell IPX

0xF0F0

NetBios

0xFEFE

IOS network layer PDU

0xFFFF

Novell IPX 802.3 RAW packet

0x4242

STP BPDU

0x0606

IP

0x9898

ARP

LLC type 1 connectionless service, LLC type 2 connection-oriented service

and LLC type 3 acknowledge connectionless service are three types of LLC frame
for all classes of service. In the figure above, it shows the format of Service Access
Point

3-3 SAP Format

(SAP). Please refer to IEEE802.2 for more details.

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