Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:29:50 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/35604: arp(4) page mentions 10Mb/s but not 100Mb/s. Message-ID: <20020404142950.A22902@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <mrhemr3yb0.emr@localhost.localdomain>; from swear@blarg.net on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 02:15:47PM -0800 References: <200204041930.g34JU5H25795@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020404115251.A12735@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <mrhemr3yb0.emr@localhost.localdomain>
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--vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 02:15:47PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes: >=20 > > 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 >=20 > 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. Token Ring and FDDI networks use MAC addresse and framing identical to Ethernet. ARCnet is totally differnet though and supporting it required the addition of support for variable length addresses in ARP. At this point, the manpages should probably refer at IP address to data link address mappings. ARP was actually ment to map Network Layer addresses to Data Link Layer addresses, but as far as I know ARP is only used for IP. AppleTalk, for example, has it's own AARP protocol. -- 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 --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL 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 iD8DBQE8rNPeXY6L6fI4GtQRAtPoAKC9NLe5LyekjLp8v4kK73xYmy3ArQCeKOTG kIWt1V1xgH/wkxqHnnFijRo= =KX5K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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