Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:52:51 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/35604: arp(4) page mentions 10Mb/s but not 100Mb/s. Message-ID: <20020404115251.A12735@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <200204041930.g34JU5H25795@freefall.freebsd.org>; from swear@blarg.net on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:30:05AM -0800 References: <200204041930.g34JU5H25795@freefall.freebsd.org>
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--k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:30:05AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > That last sentence seems wrong in light of the first two. I'm no > expert, but I thought ARP was precisely specific to Ethernet. > If that's correct, there's no "combination" left, and maybe the whole > sentence is unneeded. It's not clear what the leftover would be trying > to say. That ARP doesn't need to use Internet Protocol, but this > implementation does? ?? It should be cleared up or cleared out. ARP is not specific to Ethernet that's just the most common implementation. Also, our implementation is no longer ethernet specific and supports arcnet in addition to Ethernet and Tokenring (which uses the same framing as Ethernet so it's trivial). Also, ARP does not use IP at all. It's a link level protocol that support IP. You could support some other protocols using ARP, but I don't know of any and I've heard comments to the effect that it's as flexable as the RFC claims it is. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8rK8SXY6L6fI4GtQRAnH5AKCnqQFTfHzWfD8144rOIE0srcigWQCcC4hm iyxfULGuygc8at7jc6EAMxE= =rBpE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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