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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
| commit | 6d8bdc65446a704d0750217efd05532fc641ea7d (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae6d698b3c9801750a8b117b3842fb369872a3a /static/openbsd/man5/ethers.5 | |
| parent | 2f467bd7ff8f8db0dafa40426166491d7f57f368 (diff) | |
docs: OpenBSD Man Pages Added
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man5/ethers.5 b/static/openbsd/man5/ethers.5 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..aadd45fc --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man5/ethers.5 @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: ethers.5,v 1.20 2019/08/30 19:34:04 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: ethers.5,v 1.2 1994/11/30 19:31:16 jtc Exp $ +.\" +.\" Written by Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>. Public domain. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: August 30 2019 $ +.Dt ETHERS 5 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm ethers +.Nd Ethernet host name database +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +file maps Ethernet addresses to host names. +Lines consist of an address and a host name, separated by any number +of blanks and/or tab characters. +A +.Ql # +indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of +the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file. +.Pp +Ethernet addresses are expressed as six hexadecimal numbers separated by +colons. +The functions described in +.Xr ether_aton 3 +can read and produce this format. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /etc/ethers -compact +.It Pa /etc/ethers +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr ether_aton 3 , +.Xr diskless 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +file format was adopted from SunOS and appeared in +.Nx +0.9b. +.Sh BUGS +A name server should be used instead of a static file. +.Pp +Lines in +.Pa /etc/ethers +are limited to +.Dv BUFSIZ +characters +.Pq currently 1024 . +Longer lines will be ignored. |
