What is the difference between an Ethernet frame and an IEEE802.3 frame? Why is there a difference?
Ethernet was invented at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and later became an international standard. IEEE handled making it a standard; and their specifications are slightly different from the original Xerox ones. Hence, two different types. 802.3 uses the 802.2 LLC to distinguish among multiple clients, and has a “LENGTH” field where Ethernet has a 2-byte “TYPE” field to distinguish among multiple client protocols. TCP/IP and DECnet (and others) use Ethernet_II framing, which is that which Xerox/PARC originated.
