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.\" Copyright (c) 1995
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.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This product includes software developed by Bill Paul.
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY Bill Paul AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" $Id: ethers.5,v 1.1 1995/04/12 22:16:08 wpaul Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd April 12, 1995
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.Dt ETHERS 5
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.Os FreeBSD 2.1
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm ethers
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.Nd ethernet address database
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm ethers
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database contains information regarding known 48-bit ethernet addresses
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of hosts on an Internetwork. The data is stored in a file called
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.Pa /etc/ethers
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in the following format:
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.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
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.Pa ethernet-address fully-qualified-host-name
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or
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tab characters. A ``#'' at the start of a line indicates the
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beginning of a comment that extends to the end of the line. A ``+'' at
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the start of a line will cause the
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.Xr ethers 3
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library functions to use data stored in the NIS
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.Pa ethers.byname
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and
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.Pa ethers.byaddr
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maps in addition to the data in the
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.Pa /etc/ethers
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file.
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.Pp
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An ethernet address is expressed in
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.Tn ASCII
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form as "x:x:x:x:x:x" where
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.Ar x
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is a hexadecimal value between 0x00 and 0xFF. The address values
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should be in network order. Hostnames specified in the
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.Pa /etc/ethers
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database should correspond to entries in the
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.Xr hosts 5
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file.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn ether_line
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function in the standard C library can be used to break individual
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lines in the
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.Pa /etc/ethers
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database into their individual components: a binary Ethernet address
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stored as an
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.Pa ether_addr
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structure, and a hostname stored as a character string.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /etc/services -compact
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.It Pa /etc/ethers
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The
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.Nm ethers
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file resides in
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.Pa /etc .
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr ethers 3
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm ethers
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format is based on the format used in SunOS 4.1.x.
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