centos man page for ethers

Query: ethers

OS: centos

Section: 5

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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 characters. 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 net-tools 2008-10-03 ETHERS(5)
Related Man Pages
ethers(4) - opensolaris
ethers(3) - netbsd
ether_ntoa(3) - netbsd
ether_ntohost(3) - netbsd
ethers(4) - sunos
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