A question on an exam I already took goes "This term refers to end-user data along with networking headers and trailers that is transmitted through a network." It is either a packet or a frame I believe frame would be the appropriate term because a packet is transmitted through networks and internetworks and had no trailer, only headers, but in my networking class they are saying packet? Please help me make sense of this!
What is end-user data along with networking headers and trailers transmitted through a network?
Typically a "packet" is the wrong answer as it does not on it's own have a trailer as you said. But a packet travels inside a frame, and the frame provides the trailer. I would agree, and say that "packets" themselves do not have a trailer, and therefore say that frame is the right answer.
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After reviewing the question a little more it says the term refers to "end user data" along with "networking headers, and trailers" that is transmitted through a network. So if the term refers alone to the end user data itself (and not to what it accompanies) then it's a packet. If the term refers to the end user data AND the headers and trailers that are being transmitted then it's a frame. It might just be one of those poor word choice questions or one designed to tick you off and trick you.
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