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System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (NIS+)

ethers NIS+ Table

The ethers table stores information about the 48-bit Ethernet addresses of machines on the Internet. It has three columns.

Table 23–5 ethers Table

Column 

Content 

Description 

Addr 

Ethernet-address 

The 48-bit Ethernet address of the machine 

Name 

Official-host-name 

The name of the machine, as specified in the hosts table 

Comment 

Comment 

An optional comment about the entry 

An Ethernet address has the form:

n:n:n:n:n:n hostname

where n is a hexadecimal number between 0 and FF, representing one byte. The address bytes are always in network order (most significant byte first).