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