minix man page for ethers

Query: ethers

OS: minix

Section: 5

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ETHERS(5)							File Formats Manual							 ETHERS(5)

NAME
ethers - ethernet address to hostname database
SYNOPSIS
/etc/ethers
DESCRIPTION
The ethers database translates ethernet addresses to hostnames for use by the RARP daemon (see rarpd(8).) /etc/ethers may look like this: 0:0:c0:a:77:23 darask 0:0:c0:a:68:ce burask The six octet ethernet numbers must be entered as shown above, the hex constants must use lowercase letters and may not have leading zeros. Comments are marked with '#'. See rarpd(8) on why you shouldn't list Sun hosts in this file.
FILES
/etc/ethers Ethernet addresses database.
SEE ALSO
hosts(5), rarpd(8), boot(8).
AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl) ETHERS(5)
Related Man Pages
rarpd(8) - debian
ethers(5) - ultrix
rarpd(8) - suse
ethers(5) - netbsd
rarpd(8) - osf1
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