Subject: Re: rc.d script for adding static ARP entries
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
List: tech-security
Date: 07/28/2005 17:21:30 
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:08:40PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> >arp.conf fileformat is like this:
> >
> >172.16.1.2	00:00:24:c4:54:71
> >172.16.1.5	00:c0:9f:8d:d8:a4
> 
> Why not use /etc/ethers, or at least its format?

This is the format accepted by arp -f.  See arp(8).  

GH