Source Host (6 bytes)

Protocol: IPX IPX PCI

Field: source host

Length: 6 bytes

Contents: source host address.

This field contains the source station's MAC address. Since topologies standardized by IEEE are used, MAC addresses will have a length of 6 bytes.

If the MAC addresses are less then 6 bytes in length (i.e. ARCnet), the most significant bytes are set to 0".

The broadcast address is 0xFF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF.