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31.\" $FreeBSD$
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33.Dd May 11, 2004
34.Dt EUI64 5
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm eui64
38.Nd IEEE EUI-64 address database
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Nm
42database contains information regarding known IEEE EUI-64s of hosts.
43The data is stored in a file called
44.Pa /etc/eui64
45in the following format:
46.Bd -ragged -offset indent
47.Em EUI-64 host-name
48.Ed
49.Pp
50Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or
51tab characters.
52A
53.Ql #
54at the start of a line indicates the
55beginning of a comment that extends to the end of the line.
56Valid lines may also contain comments.
57A
58.Ql +
59at the start of a line will cause the
60.Xr eui64 3
61library functions to use data stored in the
62NIS
63.Pa eui64.byname
64and
65.Pa eui64.byid
66maps in addition to the data in the
67.Pa /etc/eui64
68file.
69.Pp
70An EUI-64 is expressed in
71.Tn ASCII
72form as
73.Qq x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
74where
75.Ar x
76is a hexadecimal value between 0x00 and 0xFF.
77The address values
78should be in network order.
79Hostnames specified in the
80.Pa /etc/eui64
81database should correspond to entries in the
82.Xr hosts 5
83file.
84.\" .Pp
85.\" The
86.\" .Fn eui64_line
87.\" function in the standard C library can be used to break individual
88.\" lines in the
89.\" .Pa /etc/eui64
90.\" database into their individual components: a binary EUI-64 is
91.\" stored as an
92.\" .Pa eui64_addr
93.\" structure, and a hostname stored as a character string.
94.Sh FILES
95.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/eui64" -compact
96.It Pa /etc/eui64
97The
98.Nm
99file resides in
100.Pa /etc .
101.El
102.Sh SEE ALSO
103.Xr eui64 3 ,
104.Xr yp 8
105.Sh HISTORY
106The
107.Nm
108format is based on the
109.Xr ethers 5
110format.
111