Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 18:56:10 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-share@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 ethers.5 Message-ID: <19980104185610.01906@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199801041734.JAA04154@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Steve Price on Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 09:34:44AM -0800 References: <199801041734.JAA04154@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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. ;-)
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