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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 02:49:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
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Subject: arp.4 claims ARP only over 10Mb/s Ethernet
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>Number:         22013
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       arp.4 claims ARP only over 10Mb/s Ethernet
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 15 18:40:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jun 18 17:09:37 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jun 18 17:09:47 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Christian Weisgerber
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT alpha
>Organization:
>Environment:

>Description:

The arp(4) man page erroneously claims that ARP is only used over
10Mb/s Ethernet.

Pointed out by Hans-Guenter Weigand <hgw@d1906.inka.de> and
Juergen Unger <dwalin@addict.de>.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

Index: arp.4
===================================================================
RCS file: /freebsd/src/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 arp.4
--- arp.4	1999/08/28 01:15:26	1.4
+++ arp.4	2000/10/16 00:49:17
@@ -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. 

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
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.
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: dd 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jun 18 17:09:37 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Man page has been fixed. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=22013 
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