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diff --git a/share/man/man5/ethers.5 b/share/man/man5/ethers.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e10bf30 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man5/ethers.5 @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +.\" 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 April 12, 1995 +.Dt ETHERS 5 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm ethers +.Nd ethernet address database +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +database contains information regarding known 48-bit ethernet addresses +of hosts on an Internetwork. +The data is stored in a file called +.Pa /etc/ethers +in the following format: +.Pp +.D1 Ar ethernet-address fully-qualified-host-name +.Pp +Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or +tab characters. +A ``#'' at the start of a line indicates the +beginning of a comment that extends to the end of the line. +A ``+'' at +the start of a line will cause the +.Xr ethers 3 +library functions to use data stored in the +.Tn NIS +.Pa ethers.byname +and +.Pa ethers.byaddr +maps in addition to the data in the +.Pa /etc/ethers +file. +.Pp +An ethernet address is expressed in +.Tn ASCII +form as "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/ethers +database should correspond to entries in the +.Xr hosts 5 +file. +.Pp +The +.Fn ether_line +function in the standard C library can be used to break individual +lines in the +.Pa /etc/ethers +database into their individual components: a binary Ethernet address +stored as an +.Pa ether_addr +structure, and a hostname stored as a character string. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /etc/services -compact +.It Pa /etc/ethers +The +.Nm +file resides in +.Pa /etc . +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr ethers 3 , +.Xr yp 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +format is based on the format used in SunOS 4.1.x. |