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| From | Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Content of /etc/ethers |
| Date | 2024-01-04 04:30 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <HSmAF-DPF-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Wed, Jan 03 2024 at 08:35:41 PM, Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 8:23 PM John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> wrote: > >> The man page for /etc/ethers (a file) is in net-tools. The file does >> not exist on my Sid system. >> >> The man page: >> >> NAME >> ethers - Ethernet address to IP number database >> > .... > Isn't that file a somehow surviving BSD-ism? > I have a vague memory of configuring a DHCP/bootp server using /etc/ethers as a source of static IP address assignments (possibly on a solaris machine?). Casual web searching finds dnsmasq can do this too, so perhaps it is a common way of configuring static addresses for dhcp servers. -- regards, kushal
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Content of /etc/ethers Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> - 2024-01-04 02:30 +0100
Re: Content of /etc/ethers Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-01-04 03:10 +0100
Re: Content of /etc/ethers John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-01-04 03:30 +0100
Re: Content of /etc/ethers Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2024-01-04 03:40 +0100
Re: Content of /etc/ethers Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-01-04 04:00 +0100
Re: Content of /etc/ethers Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2024-01-04 06:40 +0100
Re: Content of /etc/ethers Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2024-01-04 04:30 +0100
Re: Content of /etc/ethers Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-01-04 06:30 +0100
Re: Content of /etc/ethers "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2024-01-05 00:00 +0100
Re: Content of /etc/ethers Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2024-01-04 15:00 +0100
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