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1.TH ETHERS 5
2.SH NAME
3ethers \- ethernet address to hostname database
4.SH SYNOPSIS
5.B /etc/ethers
6.SH DESCRIPTION
7The ethers database translates ethernet addresses to hostnames for use by
8the RARP daemon (see
9.BR rarpd (8).)
10.B /etc/ethers
11may look like this:
12.PP
13.RS
14.ta +20n +10n
150:0:c0:a:77:23 flotsam
16.br
170:0:c0:a:68:ce jetsam
18.RE
19.PP
20The six octet ethernet numbers must be entered as shown above, the hex
21constants must use lowercase letters and may not have leading zeros.
22Comments are marked with '#'.
23.PP
24See
25.BR rarpd (8)
26on why you shouldn't list Sun hosts in this file.
27.SH FILES
28.TP 15n
29/etc/ethers
30Ethernet addresses database.
31.SH "SEE ALSO"
32.BR hosts (5),
33.BR rarpd (8),
34.BR boot (8).
35.SH AUTHOR
36Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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