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

[Bruce Simpson]

On 03/10/16 20:22, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> The collision is unfortunate, but I agree that the context should be enough.

Agreed -- other technical writers have also used this version of the 
GARP acronym in doco.

>> However, that GARP -- 802.1ak -- is due to be replaced with MRP.
>
> The "Mental-map Rewriting Protocol"?  ;-)

Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP) is intended to fill most of the 
roles GARP/GVRP did, for dynamic VLAN, end-station MAC and L2 multicast 
registration. (Think Ethernet multicast without IP.)

Actually, being reminded of this gave me an idea -- adding a subset of 
what's needed to support MRP to if_bridge would probably also help for 
supporting Ethernet rings; those protocols need to call into VLAN 
registration and port blocking too.

It would make for some good junior kernel hacker tasks...