1.\" $NetBSD: ethers.5,v 1.2 1994/11/30 19:31:16 jtc Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Written by Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>. Public domain. 4.\" 5.Dd December 16, 1993 6.Dt ETHERS 5 7.Os NetBSD 8.Sh NAME 9.Nm ethers 10.Nd Ethernet host name data base 11.Sh DESCRIPTION 12The 13.Xr ethers 14file maps Ethernet addresses to host names. 15Lines consist of an address and a host name, separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. 16A ``#'' indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of 17the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file. 18.Pp 19Ethernet addresses are expressed as six hexadecimal numbers separated by colons. The functions described in 20.Xr ethers 3 21and 22.Xr ether_aton 3 23can read and produce this format. 24.Sh FILES 25.Bl -tag -width /etc/ethers -compact 26.It Pa /etc/ethers 27The 28.Nm ethers 29file resides in 30.Pa /etc . 31.El 32.Sh SEE ALSO 33.Xr ethers 3 34.Sh BUGS 35A name server should be used instead of a static file. 36.Sh HISTORY 37The 38.Nm ethers 39file format was adopted from SunOS and appeared in 40NetBSD 0.9b. 41