ETHERS
Section: File Formats (5)
Index
Return to Main Contents
BSD mandoc
NetBSD
NAME
ethers
- Ethernet host name data base
DESCRIPTION
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.
Ethernet addresses are expressed as six hexadecimal numbers separated by colons. The functions described in
ethers(3)
and
ether_aton3
can read and produce this format.
FILES
- /etc/ethers
-
The
ethers
file resides in
/etc
SEE ALSO
ethers(3)
BUGS
A name server should be used instead of a static file.
HISTORY
The
ethers
file format was adopted from SunOS and appeared in
NetBSD 0.9b.
Index
- NAME
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- FILES
-
- SEE ALSO
-
- BUGS
-
- HISTORY
-
This document was created by
man2html,
using the manual pages.
Time: 15:33:05 GMT, January 15, 2023