ETHERS(5) - File Formats Manual #
ETHERS(5) - File Formats Manual
NAME #
ethers - Ethernet host name database
DESCRIPTION #
The
ethers
file maps Ethernet addresses to host names.
Lines consist of an address and a host name, separated by any number
of blanks and/or tab characters.
A
‘#’
indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of
the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file.
Ethernet addresses are expressed as six hexadecimal numbers separated by colons. The functions described in ether_aton(3) can read and produce this format.
FILES #
/etc/ethers
SEE ALSO #
HISTORY #
The ethers file format was adopted from SunOS and appeared in NetBSD 0.9b.
BUGS #
A name server should be used instead of a static file.
Lines in
/etc/ethers
are limited to
BUFSIZ
characters
(currently 1024).
Longer lines will be ignored.
OpenBSD 7.5 - August 30, 2019