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IEEE 802.2 is the original name of the ISO/IEC 8802-2 standard which defines Logical Link Control (LLC) as the upper portion of the data link layer of the OSI Model. The original standard developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in collaboration with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) was adopted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1998, but it still remains an integral part of the family of IEEE 802 standards for local and metropolitan networks. LLC is a software component that provides a uniform interface to the user of the data link service, usually the network layer. LLC may offer three types of services: * Unacknowledged connectionless mode services (mandatory) * Connection mode services (optional) * Acknowledged connectionless mode services (optional) Conversely, the LLC uses the services of the Media Access Control (MAC), which is dependent on the specific transmission medium (Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, 802.11, etc.). Using LLC is compulsory for all IEEE 802 networks with the exception of Ethernet. It is also used in Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) which is not part of the IEEE 802 family. The IEEE 802.2 sublayer adds some control information to the message created by the upper layer and passed to the LLC for transmission to another node on the same data link. The resulting packet is generally referred to as ''LLC Protocol Data Unit (PDU)'' and the additional information added by the LLC sublayer is the ''LLC HEADER''. The LLC Header consist of ''DSAP'' (''Destination Service Access Point''), ''SSAP'' (''Source Service Access Point'') and the ''Control'' field. The two 8-bit fields DSAP and SSAP allow to multiplex various upper layer protocols above LLC. However, many protocols use the Subnetwork Access Protocol (SNAP) extension which allows using of EtherType values to specify the protocol being transported atop IEEE 802.2. It also allows vendors to define their own protocol value spaces. The 8 or 16 bit HDLC-style Control field serves to distinguish communication mode, to specify a specific operation and to facilitate connection control and flow control (in connection mode) or acknowledgements (in acknowledged connectionless mode). ==Operational modes== IEEE 802.2 provides two connectionless and one connection-oriented operational modes: * Type 1 is an unacknowledged connectionless mode for a datagram service. It allows for sending frames * * to a single destination (point-to-point or unicast transfer), * * to multiple destinations on the same network (multicast), * * or to all stations of the network (broadcast). The use of multicasts and broadcasts reduce network traffic when the same information needs to be propagated to all stations of the network. However the Type 1 service provides no guarantees regarding the order of the received frames compared to the order in which they have been sent; the sender does not even get an acknowledgment that the frames have been received. * Type 2 is a connection-oriented operational mode. Sequence numbering ensures that the frames received are guaranteed to be in the order they have been sent, and no frames are lost. * Type 3 is an acknowledged connectionless service. It supports point-to-point communication only . Each device conforming the IEEE 802.2 standard must support service type 1. Each network node is assigned an LLC Class according to which service types it supports: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「IEEE 802.2」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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