Thursday, April 9, 2015

Bit Stuffing in Networks


Bit stuffing happens in Data Link Layer.

The start and stop flag is indicated by the 8 bits : 01111110

The process of adding one extra 0 whenever five consecutive 1s follow a 0 in
the data, so that the receiver does not mistake the pattern 01111110 for a flag.




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