On 28.06.05, 09:52:17, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:25:26AM +0200, Nino Dehne wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Ah, you're right.  I didn't know /etc/ethers had a meaning already on

/etc/ethers is used as the database for rarpd, used to netboot
(among others) older Sun workstations, which initially get their
IP address via rarp.

> NetBSD.  arp -f can take any file, I just choose /etc/ethers because it's
> the default on Linux.  It can be any other file.  
> 
> GH
> 
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