The end-of-frame consists of 7 recessive bits. It is often written that it is used to detect stuffing errors by a receiver. I also read that if the 7th bit is driven to dominant level, the transmitter is detecting this as an error? However, it was not written who puts the 7th bit to the dominant level.
I have two questions:
The question is... the 7th bit in time (LSB) or first bit in time (MSB)?
If the sender sends several 1's without stuffing bits, this looks like a premature EOF. Since the receivers know how many bytes to expect, they will notice this error on the 6th bit, and can drive the line to 0 on the 7th bit. This then looks like a EOF with a 0 in the LSB.
If any receiver receives a message correctly, it will drive the first ACKN bit to dominant 0. So, this 0 means that at least one receiver received the message correctly. But receivers which did not, are not heard. They will wait for the second ACKN bit, which is always 1, and then send a 0. This bit is the MSB of the EOF.
