CPC H04L 69/08 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1621 (2013.01); H04L 69/03 (2013.01); H04L 69/14 (2013.01); H04L 69/166 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01); H04L 69/26 (2013.01); H04L 69/324 (2013.01); H04L 47/39 (2013.01); H04L 49/10 (2013.01); H04L 69/02 (2013.01)] | 12 Claims |
1. A system comprising:
a first device connected to an Ethernet physical layer connection, wherein the first device is configured to: construct a frame having a twelve-byte field, a two-byte field, and a data field, wherein the two-byte field includes information identifying whether the frame is to be interpreted as an Ethernet frame, output the frame over the Ethernet physical layer connection by transmitting the twelve-byte field, followed by the two-byte field, and followed by the data field, and output, over the Ethernet physical layer connection, an Ethernet frame check sequence calculated based on the frame; and a second device connected to the Ethernet physical layer connection, wherein the second device is configured to: receive the frame over the Ethernet physical layer connection, determine, based on the two-byte field, whether the frame is to be interpreted as an Ethernet frame, and communicate with the first device;
wherein the second device is further configured to: parse, from the data field, a plurality of messages included within the frame, wherein each of the plurality of messages includes a message header and a message payload;
wherein the plurality of messages includes a message marked with an error, and wherein the second device is further configured to: refrain from processing the message marked with an error.
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