Subject: Re: rc.d script for adding static ARP entries
To: None <ghen@telenet.be>
From: Nino Dehne <ndehne@gmail.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/28/2005 01:25:26 
Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> The format of this file is very easy: 
> 
> 	hostname ether_addr
> 
> e.g.:
> 
> 	192.16.1.20 00:12:bf:02:b4:ff

I think ethers(5) is not meant to be fed into arp -f. arp -f expects 
hostname ether_addr but ethers(5) is ether_addr hostname.

Regards,

ND