Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:20:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: barney@databus.com (Barney Wolff), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 127/8 continued Message-ID: <200109290320.WAA37596@aurora.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <tnhetnj8a9.etn@localhost.localdomain> from "Gary W. Swearingen" at Sep 28, 2001 02:49:02 PM
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> Both "ifconfig" and "networking" man pages mention "point to point", > but neither gives a clue as to what it might be or that it isn't > supported by the Ethernet drivers (though I guess the later really > belongs in the driver man pages -- a caution would be good though). Both mention it because it is one type of network connection. Ethernet is a multipoint type of network connection. T1 (or PPP or SLIP or ATM PVC) is a point to point. ifconfig mentions it because it is necessary to know how to configure both types of networks. My own feeling is that describing terms such as these are not really the function of the BSD manual system; if you're working with networks, then I would expect that there's a fundamental understanding that a T1 is a point to point network and that an Ethernet is a multipoint network. A good intro-to-networking text will clear that up for most people. Note that the BSD manual doesn't describe things that are certainly more technical, such as how to calculate netmask/broadcast, and/or their functions... -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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