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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-08 00:21:31 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-08 00:21:31 +0000
commit31da08892cd3349676917320548e92b7170e539f (patch)
tree2bcc05bd61d8dc50843a9df23594a4b4501a7f54 /usr.sbin/arp/arp.4
parent3035e250c3d7a79b3f5d0de48cc642b4d4752ad1 (diff)
usr.sbin/ man page repairs, a-i
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4 b/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4
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--- a/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4
+++ b/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Em "pseudo-device ether"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a protocol used to dynamically
+The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is 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 used by all of 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.
.Pp
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ If a response is provided, the new mapping is cached and any pending
message is transmitted.
ARP will queue at most one packet while waiting for a response to a
mapping request;
-only the most recently ``transmitted'' packet is kept.
+only the most recently transmitted packet is kept.
If the target host does not respond after several requests,
the host is considered to be down for a short period (normally 20 seconds),
allowing an error to be returned to transmission attempts during this