Thank you for mentioning "dnsmasq". I do the same thing on my home network and
it works very well.
Rick
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, at 9:29 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Which tools read /etc/ethers, what do they expect in there, what do
>> they do with the contents?
>
> AFAIK it's mostly unused
On 1/3/24 18:07, Steve Keller wrote:
Which tools read /etc/ethers, what do they expect in there, what do
they do with the contents? Is it only used to show names to a user or
take names from a user instead of MAC addresses, like in tcpdump?
The Linux man page says the entries in /etc/ethers
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 6:58 PM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> What's not really stated anywhere is *why* these library functions
> exist. I don't see many practical application for a library function
> that reads a text file full of MAC addresses and hostnames, looks up
> one of them, and spits out the
> Which tools read /etc/ethers, what do they expect in there, what do
> they do with the contents?
AFAIK it's mostly unused nowadays. I have such a file on my DHCP
server, where `dnsmasq` reads it (lets me give static IP addresses to
some of my machines, even though they're configured via DHCP,
On Wed, Jan 03 2024 at 08:35:41 PM, Nicholas Geovanis
wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 8:23 PM John Hasler 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
On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 08:35:41PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 8:23 PM John Hasler 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
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 8:23 PM John Hasler 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?
> --
>
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
DESCRIPTION
/etc/ethers contains 48 bit Ethernet addresses and their corresponding
IP numbers, one line for each
On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 02:07:06AM +0100, Steve Keller wrote:
> Which tools read /etc/ethers, what do they expect in there, what do
> they do with the contents?
unicorn:~$ ls -ld /etc/ethers
ls: cannot access '/etc/ethers': No such file or directory
> Is it only used to show names to a user or
>
Which tools read /etc/ethers, what do they expect in there, what do
they do with the contents? Is it only used to show names to a user or
take names from a user instead of MAC addresses, like in tcpdump?
The Linux man page says the entries in /etc/ethers should be numeric
IP addresses or names
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