NAME
ethers - Ethernet address to IP number database
DESCRIPTION
/etc/ethers contains 48 bit Ethernet addresses and their corresponding
IP numbers, one line for each IP number:
Ethernet-address IP-number
The two items are separated by any number of SPACE and/or TAB
characters. A # at the beginning of a line starts a comment which
extends to the end of the line. The Ethernet-address is written as
x:x:x:x:x:x, where x is a hexadecimal number between 0 and ff which
represents one byte of the address, which is in network byte order
(big-endian). The IP-number may be a hostname which can be resolved by
DNS or a dot separated number.
EXAMPLES
08:00:20:00:61:CA pal
FILES
/etc/ethers
SEE ALSO
rarp(8)
May 15th, 2005