redhat man page for ethers

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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 char acters.   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 separated number.

EXAMPLES
       08:00:20:00:61:CA  pal

FILES
       /etc/ethers

SEE ALSO
       rarp(8)

								 April 26th, 1996							 ETHERS(5)