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NAME

6       ethers - Ethernet address to IP number database
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DESCRIPTION

9       /etc/ethers  contains 48 bit Ethernet addresses and their corresponding
10       IP numbers, one line for each IP number:
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12              Ethernet-address  IP-number
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14       The two items are separated by any number of SPACE and/or  TAB  charac‐
15       ters.  A # at the beginning of a line starts a comment which extends to
16       the end of the line.  The Ethernet-address is written  as  x:x:x:x:x:x,
17       where  x  is a hexadecimal number between 0 and ff which represents one
18       byte of the address, which is in network byte order (big-endian).   The
19       IP-number may be a hostname which can be resolved by DNS or a dot sepa‐
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EXAMPLES

23       08:00:20:00:61:CA  pal
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FILES

26       /etc/ethers
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