From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Apr 4 8:40:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF24337B42F for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 08:40:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g34Ge3283690; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 08:40:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 08:40:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200204041640.g34Ge3283690@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Mike DeGraw-Bertsch Subject: Re: docs/35604: arp(4) page mentions 10Mb/s but not 100Mb/s. Reply-To: Mike DeGraw-Bertsch Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/35604; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mike DeGraw-Bertsch To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, swear@blarg.net Cc: Subject: Re: docs/35604: arp(4) page mentions 10Mb/s but not 100Mb/s. Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 11:30:14 -0500 Howdy, Mark Tinguely tells me that ARP works for all speeds of Ethernet. The patch below reflects that. -Mike --- arp.4.old Thu Apr 4 11:09:54 2002 +++ arp.4 Thu Apr 4 11:11:05 2002 @@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ .Cd "pseudo-device ether" .Sh DESCRIPTION The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a protocol used to dynamically -map between Internet host addresses and 10Mb/s Ethernet addresses. -It is used by all the 10Mb/s Ethernet interface drivers. -It is not specific to Internet protocols or to 10Mb/s Ethernet, +map between Internet host addresses and Ethernet addresses. +It is used by all the Ethernet interface drivers. +It is not specific to Internet protocols or to Ethernet, but this implementation currently supports only that combination. .Pp ARP caches Internet-Ethernet address mappings. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message