Date: 04 Apr 2002 14:15:47 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/35604: arp(4) page mentions 10Mb/s but not 100Mb/s. Message-ID: <mrhemr3yb0.emr@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20020404115251.A12735@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <200204041930.g34JU5H25795@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020404115251.A12735@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes: > 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 So would you say that the arp(4) and arp(8) manuals need other changes to their many uses of the term "Ethernet", or do "arcnet" and "Tokenring" also have "Ethernet addresses" in networking jargon? "MAC address" would sound better to me as a generic term, though I suspect that is pure Ethernet jargon too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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