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- ETHERS(5) UNIX Programmer's Manual ETHERS(5)
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- NNAAMMEE
- eetthheerrss - Ethernet host name data base
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- DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
- The ethers file maps Ethernet addresses to host names. Lines consist of
- an address and a host name, separated by any number of blanks and/or tab
- characters. A ``#'' indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up
- to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines which search the
- file.
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- Ethernet addresses are expressed as six hexadecimal numbers separated by
- colons. The functions described in ethers(3) and ether_aton(3) can read
- and produce this format.
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- FFIILLEESS
- /etc/ethers The eetthheerrss file resides in _/_e_t_c.
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- SSEEEE AALLSSOO
- ethers(3)
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- BBUUGGSS
- A name server should be used instead of a static file.
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- HHIISSTTOORRYY
- The eetthheerrss file format was adopted from SunOS and appeared in NetBSD
- 0.9b.
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- NetBSD December 16, 1993 1
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