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ETHERS(5)                        Linux System Administrator's Manual                       ETHERS(5)



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  begin‐
       ning  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)



net-tools                                    2008-10-03                                    ETHERS(5)