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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Subject: Re: bin/22064: ifconfig.8 claims ARP only on 10Mb/s Ethernet
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The following reply was made to PR bin/22064; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: bin/22064: ifconfig.8 claims ARP only on 10Mb/s Ethernet
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 20:50:17 -0700

 The following patch corrects this issue in a slightly more correct way
 (ARP works on FDDI and Token Ring, not just Ethernet.)
 
 -- Brooks
 
 Index: ifconfig.8
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8,v
 retrieving revision 1.39
 diff -u -r1.39 ifconfig.8
 --- ifconfig.8	2001/05/29 09:13:44	1.39
 +++ ifconfig.8	2001/06/02 02:20:48
 @@ -106,7 +106,8 @@
  .\" through
  .\" .Ar f ,
  .\" are specified in hexadecimal.
 -.\" The host number may be omitted on 10Mb/s Ethernet interfaces,
 +.\" The host number may be omitted on IEEE 802 protocol 
 +.\" (Ethernet, FDDI, and Token Ring) interfaces,
  .\" which use the hardware physical address,
  .\" and on interfaces other than the first.
  .\" For the
 @@ -178,7 +179,9 @@
  This is currently implemented for mapping between
  .Tn DARPA
  Internet
 -addresses and 10Mb/s Ethernet addresses.
 +addresses and 
 +.Tn IEEE
 +802 48-bit MAC addresses (Ethernet, FDDI, and Token Ring addresses.)
  .It Fl arp
  Disable the use of the Address Resolution Protocol.
  .It Cm broadcast
 
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