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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:05:04 -0800
From:      bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah)
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: where to place a database of ethernet addresses ? 
Message-ID:  <200002241705.e1OH54P30001@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov>
In-Reply-To: <200002241655.RAA08060@info.iet.unipi.it> 
References:  <200002241655.RAA08060@info.iet.unipi.it>

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If memory serves me right, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> 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 ?

man 5 ethers

Or is that not what you had in mind?

Cheers,

Bruce.





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