From owner-freebsd-net Thu Feb 24 9: 3: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx01-ext.netapp.com (mx01-ext.netapp.com [198.95.224.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5935537BF8E for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:03:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff.mohler@netapp.com) Received: (qmail 2692 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2000 17:11:33 -0000 Received: from herra.netapp.com (HELO herra.corp.netapp.com) (198.95.224.184) by mx01-ext.netapp.com with SMTP; 24 Feb 2000 17:11:33 -0000 Received: from tahoe.corp.netapp.com (tahoe.netapp.com [10.10.10.112]) by herra.corp.netapp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/NTAP-1.0) with ESMTP id JAA02593; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:03:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by tahoe.corp.netapp.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:03:01 -0800 Message-ID: <242EA98B2B7DD311985A0090277AED5101355D83@CLEARCREEK.corp.netapp.com> From: "Mohler, Jeff" To: "'Luigi Rizzo'" , net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: where to place a database of ethernet addresses ? Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:03:27 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org /etc/ethers is a great place to store those. Some programs/utilties will look in there for things like that. -----Original Message----- From: Luigi Rizzo [mailto:luigi@info.iet.unipi.it] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 8:55 AM To: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: where to place a database of ethernet addresses ? Hi, what would be the right place to put a database of ethernet addresses ? There are various reasons i need this, one is to wire the ARP table so that machines cannot steal too easily other people's IPs, to do autoconfiguration on PicoBSD floppies, etc. etc. Right now (in picobsd at least) i have put records of the form # 01:23:45:67:89:a0 hostname (where the '#' is part of the format) in /etc/hosts, but perhaps there is a better standard place ? cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) Mobile +39-347-0373137 -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message