On Wed, Jan 03 2024 at 08:35:41 PM, Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 8:23 PM John Hasler <j...@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
