Re: Content of /etc/ethers

[Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net>]

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