1.\" $NetBSD: ethers.5,v 1.5 1999/03/17 20:19:45 garbled Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Written by Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>. Public domain. 4.\" 5.Dd December 16, 1993 6.Dt ETHERS 5 7.Os 8.Sh NAME 9.Nm ethers 10.Nd Ethernet host name data base 11.Sh DESCRIPTION 12The 13.Nm 14file maps Ethernet MAC addresses to host names. 15Lines consist of an address and a host name, separated by any number 16of blanks and/or tab characters. 17A ``#'' character indicates the beginning of a comment; 18characters up to the end of 19the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file. 20.Pp 21Ethernet MAC addresses are expressed as six hexadecimal numbers separated 22by colons, e.g. "08:00:20:00:5a:bc". 23The functions described in 24.Xr ethers 3 25and 26.Xr ether_aton 3 27can read and produce this format. 28.Sh FILES 29.Bl -tag -width /etc/ethers -compact 30.It Pa /etc/ethers 31The 32.Nm 33file resides in 34.Pa /etc . 35.El 36.Sh SEE ALSO 37.Xr ethers 3 38.Sh BUGS 39A name server should be used instead of a static file. 40.Sh HISTORY 41The 42.Nm ethers 43file format was adopted from 44.Tn SunOS 45and appeared in 46.Nx 1.0 . 47