Maximum Transmission Unit
Maximum Transmission Unit
(networking)A frame is a single unit of transportation on the data link layer. It consists of header data plus data which was passeddown from the network layer (e.g. an IP datagram) plussometimes trailer data.
An Ethernet (V2) frame has a MTU of 1500 bytes but the size ofthe frame can be up to 1526 bytes (22 byte header, 4 byte CRCtrailer).
See also fragmentation.