Re: Content of /etc/ethers
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
> 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 which can be resolved by DNS,
unicorn:~$ man ethers
No manual entry for ethers
What man page are you reading? Is /etc/ethers on your system a file, or
a directory? What does "dpkg -S /etc/ethers" (or one of the files, if
it's a directory containing files) say it came from?
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