.\" $NetBSD: ethers.5,v 1.2 1994/11/30 19:31:16 jtc Exp $ .\" .\" Written by Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>. Public domain. .\" .Dd December 16, 1993 .Dt ETHERS 5 .Os OpenBSD .Sh NAME .Nm ethers .Nd Ethernet host name data base .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Xr ethers file maps Ethernet addresses to host names. Lines consist of an address and a host name, separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. A ``#'' indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file. .Pp Ethernet addresses are expressed as six hexadecimal numbers separated by colons. The functions described in .Xr ethers 3 and .Xr ether_aton 3 can read and produce this format. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /etc/ethers -compact .It Pa /etc/ethers The .Nm ethers file resides in .Pa /etc . .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ethers 3 , .Xr diskless 8 .Sh BUGS A name server should be used instead of a static file. .Sh HISTORY The .Nm ethers file format was adopted from SunOS and appeared in NetBSD 0.9b.