Greetings to anyone, i'm trying to reach a NAS that autoconfigure its IP address with DHCP, I can't foresee the address because I'm not the dhcp server administrator, so I put in /etc/ethers: 00:d0:4b:87:4a:ac 192.168.0.111 192.168.0.111 (is a random address in the same subnet of my pc) My IP address is 192.168.0.5 but running ping 192.168.0.111 all the packet are dropped smbclient -L 192.168.0.111 return with Connection failed (Error NT_STATUS_HOST_UNREACHABLE) Doing strace ping 192.168.0.111 i can see that /etc/ethers is not read by ping In /etc/nsswitch.conf there is the line about ethers and is set as ethers: files Is /etc/ethers deprecated and no program read it? Thank you in advance for your help, regards, Fau