Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 20:20:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/22013: arp.4 claims ARP only over 10Mb/s Ethernet Message-ID: <200010160320.UAA28137@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/22013; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/22013: arp.4 claims ARP only over 10Mb/s Ethernet Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 20:18:20 -0700 On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:49:09AM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > The arp(4) man page erroneously claims that ARP is only used over > 10Mb/s Ethernet. I'll agree that the manpage is somewhat confusing and even agree with the change, but I will point out that this is technicaly correct. If you look at the arp hardware type list maintained by iana at ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/arp-parameters you will notice that the hardware number for ethernet is specificaly assigned to 10Mbps ethernet. This is a strange by product of the shear ancientness of the ARP protocol. ARP continues to work at 100 and 1000 Mbps because Ethernet is backwards compatable. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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