From owner-cvs-share Sun Jan 4 10:27:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA13529 for cvs-share-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 10:27:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-share) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA13119; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 10:21:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id TAA17251; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 19:21:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id SAA19008; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 18:56:10 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980104185610.01906@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 18:56:10 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: Steve Price Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-share@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 ethers.5 Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <199801041734.JAA04154@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <199801041734.JAA04154@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Steve Price on Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 09:34:44AM -0800 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-cvs-share@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Steve Price wrote: > steve 1998/01/04 09:34:43 PST > > Modified files: > share/man/man5 ethers.5 > Log: > Note in the BUGS section that /etc/ethers has been deprecated and > that using a DNS server is preferred to a static file. Hmm, i think it's rather obsoleted by arp(4) instead. Anyway, i still remember one special application for ethers(5): running tcpdump in `gateway' mode. But it's documented in the man page for tcpdump in this case. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)