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34.Dd May 11, 2004
35.Dt EUI64 5
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm eui64
39.Nd IEEE EUI-64 address database
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Nm
43database contains information regarding known IEEE EUI-64s of hosts.
44The data is stored in a file called
45.Pa /etc/eui64
46in the following format:
47.Bd -ragged -offset indent
48.Em EUI-64 host-name
49.Ed
50.Pp
51Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or
52tab characters.
53A
54.Ql #
55at the start of a line indicates the
56beginning of a comment that extends to the end of the line.
57Valid lines may also contain comments.
58A
59.Ql +
60at the start of a line will cause the
61.Xr eui64 3
62library functions to use data stored in the
63NIS
64.Pa eui64.byname
65and
66.Pa eui64.byid
67maps in addition to the data in the
68.Pa /etc/eui64
69file.
70.Pp
71An EUI-64 is expressed in
72.Tn ASCII
73form as
74.Qq x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
75where
76.Ar x
77is a hexadecimal value between 0x00 and 0xFF.
78The address values
79should be in network order.
80Hostnames specified in the
81.Pa /etc/eui64
82database should correspond to entries in the
83.Xr hosts 5
84file.
85.\" .Pp
86.\" The
87.\" .Fn eui64_line
88.\" function in the standard C library can be used to break individual
89.\" lines in the
90.\" .Pa /etc/eui64
91.\" database into their individual components: a binary EUI-64 is
92.\" stored as an
93.\" .Pa eui64_addr
94.\" structure, and a hostname stored as a character string.
95.Sh FILES
96.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/eui64" -compact
97.It Pa /etc/eui64
98The
99.Nm
100file resides in
101.Pa /etc .
102.El
103.Sh SEE ALSO
104.Xr eui64 3 ,
105.Xr yp 8
106.Sh HISTORY
107The
108.Nm
109format is based on the
110.Xr ethers 5
111format.
112