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		matthiasl on Aug 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Ethernet PAUSE frame Pause frames came with 802.3x, in 1997. That's much later than any of the protocols you name, by a decade or two.

bogomipz on Aug 23, 2016 [–]

You missed my point - that ethernet and layer 2 is agnostic to what network or transport layers run on top of it. Those were examples were to illustrate non-TCP transport layers. The date doesn't matter at all.

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