NAME
gethostip convert an IP address into various formats
SYNOPSIS
gethostip [-dxnf] [HOSTNAME|IP]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
gethostip command.
The gethostip utility converts the given hostname or
IP address into a variety formats. It is provided by the syslinux
package to make it easier to calculate the appropriate names for
pxelinux configuration files. These filenames can be the complete
hexadecimal representation for a given IP address, or a partial
hexadecimal representation to match a range of IP addresses.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
"-d"
Output the IP address in decimal format.
"-x"
Output the IP address in hexadecimal format.
"-n"
Output the host's canonical name.
"-f"
Full output. Outputs the IP address in all supported formats.
Same as -xdn.
SEE ALSO
syslinux(1)
More details can be found in the pxelinux documentation, which
can be found in
/usr/share/doc/syslinux/pxelinux.doc.gz on
Debian GNU/Linux systems.
AUTHOR
This manual page was compiled by dann frazier <dannf@debian.org> for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).