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<<On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 13:01:04 -0500, "C. Stephen Gunn" <csg@waterspout.com> said:

> ARP is completely independant of both Ethernet and and Internet
> Protocol.

Perhaps in theory but not in practice.  Other network protocols use
their own address-translation mechanisms (CLNP's ESIS, IPv6's NDP,
DECnet's ???), or just use link-layer addresses directly (XNS, IPX,
other modes of the OSI network layer).  We don't have an interface
type IFT_IEEE802LIKE so ``ether'' it is.  (If we were configuring
parameters for Ethernet specifically, it would have been
net.link.ether.link -- under net.link, name[2] is always an IFT_* and
name[3] is always a PF_*.)

-GAWollman



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