.TH ETHERS 5

.SH NAME

ethers \- ethernet address to hostname database

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B /etc/ethers

.SH DESCRIPTION

The ethers database translates ethernet addresses to hostnames for use by

the RARP daemon (see

.BR rarpd (8).)

.B /etc/ethers

may look like this:

.PP

.RS

.ta +20n +10n

0:0:c0:a:77:23 flotsam

.br

0:0:c0:a:68:ce jetsam

.RE

.PP

The six octet ethernet numbers must be entered as shown above, the hex

constants must use lowercase letters and may not have leading zeros.

Comments are marked with '#'.

.PP

See

.BR rarpd (8)

on why you shouldn't list Sun hosts in this file.

.SH FILES

.TP 15n

/etc/ethers

Ethernet addresses database.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR hosts (5),

.BR rarpd (8),

.BR boot (8).

.SH AUTHOR

Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)