From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Oct 15 20:20: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C3F37B66E for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 20:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id UAA28137; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 20:20:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 20:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200010160320.UAA28137@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Brooks Davis Subject: Re: bin/22013: arp.4 claims ARP only over 10Mb/s Ethernet Reply-To: Brooks Davis Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/22013; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Brooks Davis To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/22013: arp.4 claims ARP only over 10Mb/s Ethernet Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 20:18:20 -0700 On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:49:09AM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > The arp(4) man page erroneously claims that ARP is only used over > 10Mb/s Ethernet. I'll agree that the manpage is somewhat confusing and even agree with the change, but I will point out that this is technicaly correct. If you look at the arp hardware type list maintained by iana at ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/arp-parameters you will notice that the hardware number for ethernet is specificaly assigned to 10Mbps ethernet. This is a strange by product of the shear ancientness of the ARP protocol. ARP continues to work at 100 and 1000 Mbps because Ethernet is backwards compatable. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message