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authorbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2004-12-21 01:09:34 +0000
committerbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2004-12-21 01:09:34 +0000
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(fast) ethernet -> (Fast) Ethernet
MFC after: 3 days
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@@ -52,13 +52,13 @@ from 1 megabit to theoretically 2 megabits (roughly T1 in speed).
.Pp
The card has three fundamental hardware
units, a so-called PSA or programmable storage area, a radio modem,
-and a ethernet lan controller.
+and a Ethernet lan controller.
The latter component is the
-ancient (and not very honorable) Intel 82586 ethernet chip.
-Fundamentally it appears to the operating system as an ethernet system,
+ancient (and not very honorable) Intel 82586 Ethernet chip.
+Fundamentally it appears to the operating system as an Ethernet system,
and speaks IEEE MAC addresses.
The radio modem simply translates
-ethernet packets to/from radio packets, that are either at 2.4 GHz
+Ethernet packets to/from radio packets, that are either at 2.4 GHz
or 915 MHz depending on the radio modem.
It supports a collision
avoidance scheme.
@@ -66,12 +66,12 @@ The lan controller
supports promiscuous mode, broadcast, and multicasting
(although there is a glitch
in the latter).
-"It thinks it is ethernet".
+"It thinks it is Ethernet".
.Pp
How it is used
depends on the kind of antennae deployed with it.
Point to point
-applications are possible as are ethernet-like lan use.
+applications are possible as are Ethernet-like lan use.
The vendor
ships an omni-directional antennae that works in the
vicinity of 400 feet (indoors).
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