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31.Dd May 11, 2004
32.Dt EUI64 5
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm eui64
36.Nd IEEE EUI-64 address database
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Nm
40database contains information regarding known IEEE EUI-64s of hosts.
41The data is stored in a file called
42.Pa /etc/eui64
43in the following format:
44.Bd -ragged -offset indent
45.Em EUI-64 host-name
46.Ed
47.Pp
48Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or
49tab characters.
50A
51.Ql #
52at the start of a line indicates the
53beginning of a comment that extends to the end of the line.
54Valid lines may also contain comments.
55A
56.Ql +
57at the start of a line will cause the
58.Xr eui64 3
59library functions to use data stored in the
60NIS
61.Pa eui64.byname
62and
63.Pa eui64.byid
64maps in addition to the data in the
65.Pa /etc/eui64
66file.
67.Pp
68An EUI-64 is expressed in
69.Tn ASCII
70form as
71.Qq x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
72where
73.Ar x
74is a hexadecimal value between 0x00 and 0xFF.
75The address values
76should be in network order.
77Hostnames specified in the
78.Pa /etc/eui64
79database should correspond to entries in the
80.Xr hosts 5
81file.
82.\" .Pp
83.\" The
84.\" .Fn eui64_line
85.\" function in the standard C library can be used to break individual
86.\" lines in the
87.\" .Pa /etc/eui64
88.\" database into their individual components: a binary EUI-64 is
89.\" stored as an
90.\" .Pa eui64_addr
91.\" structure, and a hostname stored as a character string.
92.Sh FILES
93.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/eui64" -compact
94.It Pa /etc/eui64
95The
96.Nm
97file resides in
98.Pa /etc .
99.El
100.Sh SEE ALSO
101.Xr eui64 3 ,
102.Xr yp 8
103.Sh HISTORY
104The
105.Nm
106format is based on the
107.Xr ethers 5
108format.
109