1 .\" $OpenBSD: ethers.5,v 1.18 2007/05/31 19:19:58 jmc Exp $
2 .\" $NetBSD: ethers.5,v 1.2 1994/11/30 19:31:16 jtc Exp $
4 .\" Written by Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>. Public domain.
6 .Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
11 .Nd Ethernet host name database
15 file maps Ethernet addresses to host names.
16 Lines consist of an address and a host name, separated by any number
17 of blanks and/or tab characters.
20 indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of
21 the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file.
23 Ethernet addresses are expressed as six hexadecimal numbers separated by
25 The functions described in
27 can read and produce this format.
31 file has support for YP functionality,
32 which is enabled by specifying a
36 .Bl -tag -width /etc/ethers -compact
45 file format was adopted from SunOS and appeared in
49 A name server should be used instead of a static file.
57 Longer lines will be ignored.