From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Apr 4 14:15:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47FBA37B428 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:15:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10A8BD63; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:15:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA15498; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:15:27 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g34MFln24548; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:15:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Brooks Davis Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/35604: arp(4) page mentions 10Mb/s but not 100Mb/s. References: <200204041930.g34JU5H25795@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020404115251.A12735@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 04 Apr 2002 14:15:47 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020404115251.A12735@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Brooks Davis writes: > ARP is not specific to Ethernet that's just the most common > implementation. Also, our implementation is no longer ethernet specific > and supports arcnet in addition to Ethernet and Tokenring (which uses So would you say that the arp(4) and arp(8) manuals need other changes to their many uses of the term "Ethernet", or do "arcnet" and "Tokenring" also have "Ethernet addresses" in networking jargon? "MAC address" would sound better to me as a generic term, though I suspect that is pure Ethernet jargon too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message