diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml
index 177272f09b..846f95e36e 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml
@@ -1947,7 +1947,10 @@ Exports list on foobar:
 	    problem is to export a directory from the non-FreeBSD server,
 	    mount this directory onto a FreeBSD machine, and run
 	    <command>MAKEDEV</command> on the FreeBSD machine
-	    to create the correct device entries.</para>
+	    to create the correct device entries (FreeBSD 5.0 and later
+	    use &man.devfs.5; to allocate device nodes transparently for
+	    the user, running <command>MAKEDEV</command> on these
+	    versions is useless).</para>
 
 	</sect4>