NAME

       ethers - Ethernet address to IP number database

DESCRIPTION

       /etc/ethers  contains  48  bit  Ethernet addresses and their corresponding IP numbers, one
       line for each IP number:

              Ethernet-address  IP-number

       The two items are separated by any number of SPACE and/or TAB  characters.   A  #  at  the
       beginning  of  a  line  starts  a  comment  which  extends  to  the  end of the line.  The
       Ethernet-address is written as x:x:x:x:x:x, where x is a hexadecimal number between 0  and
       ff  which represents one byte of the address, which is in network byte order (big-endian).
       The IP-number may be a hostname which can be resolved by DNS or a dot separated number.

EXAMPLES

       08:00:20:00:61:CA  pal

FILES

       /etc/ethers

SEE ALSO

       arp(8), rarp(8)