From 8a4e484995c537c8d8832b3feca1d7ce80e08917 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:59:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Additional comments by: Mike DeGraw-Bertsch --- usr.sbin/arp/arp.4 | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4 b/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4 index fbec0be2c4f..8e539d1648e 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,