NAME

atmhosts − ATM host name file

DESCRIPTION

The atmhosts file is an ASCII file that contains an single-line entry for each host on the ATM network.   Each entry consists of an ATM host address, official host name, and any aliases. 

Parameters are separated by spaces or tab characters.  A number sign (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines that search the file. 

ATM host addresses are specified by an even number of hexadecimal digits.  Each pair of digits represents 8 bits of address information.  An ATM address can be one of the following:

       •An ATM address as registered with the network (19 bytes, or 38 hexadecimal digits)

       •A local Endpoint System Identifier (ESI) that is registered with the local switch (6 bytes, or 12 hexadecimal digits)

       •A full ATM Network Services Access Point (NSAP), representing the address of a service on a remote machine (20 bytes, or 40 hexadecimal digits). 

FILES

/etc/atmhosts
ATM hosts file

RELATED INFORMATION

Commands: atmconfig(8), atmarp(8)