tech-userlevel: Re: /etc/ethers versus arp?

Subject: Re: /etc/ethers versus arp?
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/10/2000 10:07:43

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 10:19:26PM -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
> What out there uses /etc/ethers, other than rarpd(8)?

tcpdump uses it to translate MAC addresses back to names.
The NIS stuff uses it to create the ethers.* maps.

Regards,
	-is
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