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- README
-
- Information about the net-tools package
- NET-TOOLS A collection of programs that form the base set of the
- NET-3 networking distribution for the Linux operating
- system.
-
- This package includes the important tools for controlling the network
- subsystem of the Linux kernel. This includes arp, hostname, ifconfig,
- netstat, rarp and route. Additionally, this package contains
- utilities relating to particular network hardware types (plipconfig,
- slattach) and advanced aspects of IP configuration (iptunnel,
- ipmaddr).
-
- Please include the output of "program --version" when reporting bugs.
-
-
- Contents:
-
- README This file.
-
- README.ipv6 Notes for people hacking IPv6.
-
- INSTALLING Installation instructions.
-
- COPYING Your free copy of the GNU Public License.
-
- TODO Some things that need to be done.
-
-
- Notes
- -----
-
- This is net-tools 1.52. Notable changes since 1.51 include:
-
- - Jean-Michel Vansteene updated the French translation.
- - Dag Brattli contributed support for IrDA
- - some bugs have been fixed
-
- Notable changes since 1.50 include:
-
- - Tuan Hoang added support to netstat for printing multicast group
- information (option --groups)
- - Jan Kratochvil added support to netstat for displaying details of
- the process owning a socket (option --programs)
- - Steve Whitehouse contributed support for DECnet
- - some bugs and compilation problems have been fixed
- - Ralf BΣchle provided a translation to German
-
- You need kernel 2.0 or later to use these programs. These programs
- should compile cleanly with both glibc (version 2.0 or 2.1) and libc5,
- though support for libc5 is not well tested.
-
- The NLS support was changed from catgets to GNU gettext by Arnaldo
- Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> in June, 1998, to make the
- source more readable. Translations to brazilian portuguese (pt_BR),
- German (de) and French (fr) are available and others are welcome!
-
- route/netstat -r do not yet support different address families
- cleanly. IPX/DDP/AX25 people, please feel free to add the code.
-
- ifconfig now supports changing media types for interfaces. This requires
- a version 2.2 kernel, and many devices do not support it yet.
-
- The tools now support the layout of the 2.2 kernel /proc files (Bernd
- Eckenfels).
-
- Some configuration options require kernel version 2.2 and/or
- particular versions of the C library. The defaults should be safe for
- all common environments but some of the more esoteric hardware and
- protocol families may be more touchy. Feel free to send patches if
- you have problems.
-
- Phil Blundell
- philb@gnu.org
-
- Bernd Eckenfels
- net-tools@lina.inka.de
-