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author | brooks <brooks@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-05-26 22:58:06 +0000 |
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committer | brooks <brooks@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-05-26 22:58:06 +0000 |
commit | 5ae1bd47055bb0a8824b70db8ecac0a96fa662c1 (patch) | |
tree | cc627438806f9b90a262d73f147f78dbf02842cd /share/man/man5 | |
parent | 1e98754d04988dca109141b293a8412e28f96698 (diff) | |
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Add support for an /etc/eui64 file modeled on /etc/ethers. The API is
modeled on ethers(3) except that all functions are thread-safe.
Reviewed by: simokawa
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man5')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/Makefile | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/eui64.5 | 108 |
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diff --git a/share/man/man5/Makefile b/share/man/man5/Makefile index ea0322f..ce8c236 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/Makefile +++ b/share/man/man5/Makefile @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ MAN= acct.5 \ drivers.conf.5 \ elf.5 \ ethers.5 \ + eui64.5 \ fbtab.5 \ fdescfs.5 \ forward.5 \ diff --git a/share/man/man5/eui64.5 b/share/man/man5/eui64.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1585fd8 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man5/eui64.5 @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1995 +.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by Bill Paul. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the author nor the names of any co-contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY Bill Paul AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd May 11, 2004 +.Dt EUI64 5 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm eui64 +.Nd IEEE EUI-64 address database +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +database contains information regarding known IEEE EUI-64s of hosts. +The data is stored in a file called +.Pa /etc/eui64 +in the following format: +.Bd -unfilled -offset indent +.Pa EUI-64 host-name +.Ed +.Pp +Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or +tab characters. +A +.Dq # +at the start of a line indicates the +beginning of a comment that extends to the end of the line. +Valid lines may also contain comments. +A +.Dq + +at the start of a line will cause the +.Xr eui64 3 +library functions to use data stored in the +.Xr NIS 4 +.Pa eui64.byname +and +.Pa eui64.byid +maps in addition to the data in the +.Pa /etc/eui64 +file. +.Pp +An EUI-64 is expressed in +.Tn ASCII +form as "x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x" where +.Ar x +is a hexadecimal value between 0x00 and 0xFF. +The address values +should be in network order. +Hostnames specified in the +.Pa /etc/eui64 +database should correspond to entries in the +.Xr hosts 5 +file. +./" .Pp +./" The +./" .Fn eui64_line +./" function in the standard C library can be used to break individual +./" lines in the +./" .Pa /etc/eui64 +./" database into their individual components: a binary EUI-64 is +./" stored as an +./" .Pa eui64_addr +./" structure, and a hostname stored as a character string. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /etc/eui64 -compact +.It Pa /etc/eui64 +The +.Nm +file resides in +.Pa /etc . +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr eui64 3 , +.Xr yp 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +format is based on the +.Xr ethers 5 +format. |