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).