From owner-freebsd-net Thu Apr 4 1:31:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from core.radioactivedata.org (146-115-123-197.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com [146.115.123.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03FB637B41B for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 01:31:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from radioactivedata.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by core.radioactivedata.org (8.12.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g349SNBa013785 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 04:28:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mbertsch@radioactivedata.org) Message-ID: <3CAC1CB7.6090003@radioactivedata.org> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 04:28:23 -0500 From: Mike DeGraw-Bertsch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020317 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Question regarding pseudo-device ether Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Howdy, Please forgive what is hopefully not too naive of a question. According to arp(4), the pseudo-device ether is used to map between 10Mb/s Ethernet addresses and IP addresses. PR docs/35604 was opened questioning whether this is true, or if it also supports 100Mb/s, and possibly also gigabit Ethernet. I've searched Google and the mailing list archives, and haven't come upon an answer. If the ether device doesn't support the 100/1000 addresses mapping, what does? If it does support 100/1000, would it be accurate to change arp(4) to read: The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a protocol used to dynamically map between Internet host addresses and 10/100/1000Mb/s Ethernet addresses. It is used by all the 10/100/1000Mb/s Ethernet interface drivers. It is not specific to Internet protocols or to 10/100/1000Mb/s Ethernet, but this implementation currently supports only that combination. Thanks much, -Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message