DECNET.CONF(5)

🌸 NAME 🌸

/etc/decnet.conf — DECnet hosts file

okay so bestie, this is DECNET.CONF(5) from the File Formats Manual, and it's giving "where you tell Linux about your DECnet besties" energy. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

/etc/decnet.conf is an ASCII file which contains the description of the executor node and other DECnet nodes you plan to communicate with.

There is one entry per line, and each line has the format:

Type Address Name_tag Nodename Line_tag Device

The field descriptions are:

• Type — the type of node. The local node uses "executor". Remote nodes use "node"
• Address — the DECnet address.
• Name_tag — the constant string "name".
• Line_tag — the constant string "line". There must be only one line specified for the executor node.
• Device — the name of the Ethernet card for DECnet operations. (Usually "eth0").

🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

Here's the example, copied exactly, no cap:

                 #Node     Node     Name  Node    Line  Line
                 #Type     Address  Tag   Name    Tag   Device
                 #----     -------  ----  ----    ----  ----------
                 executor  1.2      name  pclnx   line  eth0
                 node      1.1      name  mv3100
                 node      1.5      name  pc386

💖 and that's the page, bestie. source/version: DECnet for Linux; date: 24 July 1998; manual: DECNET.CONF(5). periodt. 💖