MAC
[TCP/IP Stack from Microchip Version 4.50 (Modified)]

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Detailed Description

The MAC or data link layer provides basic functions to access the underlaying physical layer.

This physical layer and parts of the MAC layer are part of the ethernet transceiver. Additional functions like hardware initialisization, packet transmission and receiption must be done in software. The functions of this group do this job.

Files
file	ETH97J60.c
	Medium Access Control (MAC) Layer for Microchip PIC18F97J60 family.
file	ETH97J60.h
	Ethernet registers/bits for PIC18F97J60.
file	MAC.h
	MAC Module Defs for Microchip Stack.
Functions
BOOL	MACIsLinked (void)
	Returns the link status of the PHY/MAC.

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Function Documentation

BOOL MACIsLinked

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void

)

Returns the link status of the PHY/MAC.

Precondition:

None

Return values:

	TRUE	If the PHY reports that a link partner is present and the link has been up continuously since the last call to MACIsLinked().
	FALSE	If the PHY reports no link partner, or the link went down momentarily since the last call to MACIsLinked()

Remarks:

None

Todo:

Maybe an access to the LATA register is better?!

Definition at line 248 of file ETH97J60.c.