ETHERS(5) Linux System Administrator's Manual ETHERS(5)
NAME
ethers - Ethernet address to IP number database
DESCRIPTION
/etc/ethers contains 48 bit Ethernet addresses and their corresponding
IP numbers, one line for each IP number:
Ethernet-address IP-number
The two items are separated by any number of SPACE and/or TAB charac-
ters. A # at the beginning of a line starts a comment which extends to
the end of the line. The Ethernet-address is written as x:x:x:x:x:x,
where x is a hexadecimal number between 0 and ff which represents one
byte of the address, which is in network byte order (big-endian). The
IP-number may be a hostname which can be resolved by DNS or a dot sepa-
rated number.
EXAMPLES
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FILES
/etc/ethers
SEE ALSO
arp(8), rarp(8)
net-tools 2008-10-03 ETHERS(5)
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