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What immediately follows the start frame delimiter in an ethernet frame?

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The next field in an Ethernet frame after the Start Frame Delimiter (SFD) is the Destination MAC address. This field is 6 bytes long (48 bits) and tells who the frame is meant for. The Source MAC address field comes after the Destination MAC address field. It is also 6 bytes long and shows who sent the frame. After the Source MAC address field, the frame has the Ethernet Type field. This field shows what kind of protocol is in the Ethernet frame's payload. The Payload field comes after the Ethernet Type field. The Payload can be between 46 and 1500 bytes long. The data that is being sent, like an IP packet or another message from a higher-layer protocol, is in the Payload. The last part of an Ethernet frame is the Frame Check Sequence (FCS), which is a 4-byte (32-bit) field that has a checksum for the whole Ethernet frame to make sure it didn't get messed up while being sent.

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