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Correct old wording of the arp functionality.

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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>
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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven 2002-04-05 21:59:13 +00:00
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@ -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,