Re: Content of /etc/ethers
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.
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regards,
kushal
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