svn commit: r306652 - head/usr.sbin/arp

Eric van Gyzen vangyzen at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 3 19:22:56 UTC 2016


On 10/03/2016 14:11, Bruce Simpson wrote:
> On 03/10/16 20:02, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
>> Author: vangyzen
>> Date: Mon Oct  3 19:02:22 2016
>> New Revision: 306652
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/306652
>>
>> Log:
>>   Update arp(4) to document the net.link.ether.inet.garp_rexmit_count
>> sysctl.
> 
> Meh, acronym collision.
> 
> It's probably obvious in this context that GARP stands here for
> Gratuitous ARP, but my mental autocomplete reads it as Generic Attribute
> Registration Protocol (GARP).

The collision is unfortunate, but I agree that the context should be enough.

> However, that GARP -- 802.1ak -- is due to be replaced with MRP.

The "Mental-map Rewriting Protocol"?  ;-)

Cheers,

Eric


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