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| author | asmodai <asmodai@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-05 21:59:13 +0000 |
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| committer | asmodai <asmodai@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-05 21:59:13 +0000 |
| commit | d76e4bc36376aed5ea6efd56a44cfb28f3a667c2 (patch) | |
| tree | aac3954e545fbf52520dc9ad4daecf9f4bece321 /usr.sbin/arp | |
| parent | 251be3e5cde10006be070d83afd1cb206c088de6 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-d76e4bc36376aed5ea6efd56a44cfb28f3a667c2.zip FreeBSD-src-d76e4bc36376aed5ea6efd56a44cfb28f3a667c2.tar.gz | |
Correct old wording of the arp functionality.
We are long past the stage where we only had ARP working for 10 Mb/s.
PR: 35604
Submitted by: Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net>
Additional comments by: Mike DeGraw-Bertsch <mbertsch@radioactivedata.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/arp')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/arp/arp.4 | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4 b/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4 index fbec0be..8e539d1 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4 +++ b/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4 @@ -41,11 +41,13 @@ .Sh SYNOPSIS .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, -but this implementation currently supports only that combination. +The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is used to dynamically +map between Protocol Addresses (such as IP addresses) and +Local Network Addresses (such as Ethernet addresses). +This implementation maps IP addresses to Ethernet, +ARCnet, +or Token Ring addresses. +It is used by all the Ethernet interface drivers. .Pp ARP caches Internet-Ethernet address mappings. When an interface requests a mapping for an address not in the cache, |
