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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 2002 07:47:29 -0600 (CST)
From:      mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
To:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, mbertsch@radioactivedata.org
Subject:   Re: Question regarding pseudo-device ether
Message-ID:  <200204041347.g34DlT400606@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3CAC1CB7.6090003@radioactivedata.org>

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>  According to arp(4), the pseudo-device ether is used to map between 
>  10Mb/s Ethernet addresses and IP addresses.  PR docs/35604 was opened 
>  questioning whether this is true, or if it also supports 100Mb/s, and 
>  possibly also gigabit Ethernet.  I've searched Google and the mailing 
>  list archives, and haven't come upon an answer.

yes, ARP resolves all speeds of Ethernet to IP. -current and 4.5-stable
as of this week, also support other size MACs like Arcnet too.

--mark tinguely

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