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<sect1 id="ch-system-net-tools" xreflabel="Net-tools" role="wrap">
<title>Net-tools-&net-tools-version;</title>
<?dbhtml filename="net-tools.html"?>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-net-tools"><primary sortas="a-Net-tools">Net-tools</primary></indexterm>
<sect2 role="package"><title/>
<para>The Net-tools package contains programs for basic networking.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>9.4 MB</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Net-tools installation depends on</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC,
Glibc, Make</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Net-tools</title>
<para>If you don't know what to answer to all the questions asked during the
<command>make config</command> phase below, then just accept the defaults.
This will be just fine in the majority of cases. What you're asked here is a
bunch of questions about which network protocols you've enabled in your
kernel. The default answers will enable the tools from this package to work
with the most common protocols: TCP, PPP, and several others. You still need
to actually enable these protocols in the kernel -- what you do here is merely
telling the package to include support for those protocols in its programs,
but it's up to the kernel to make the protocols available.</para>
<para>This package also has issues with being compiled by GCC 3.4, which we
fix by applying the following patch:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../net-tools-&net-tools-version;-gcc34-2.patch</userinput></screen>
<para>Net-tools has issues with the Linux 2.6 kernel series - fix these issues
by applying the following patch:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../net-tools-&net-tools-version;-kernel_headers-1.patch</userinput></screen>
<para>Now prepare Net-tools for compilation (if you intend to accept the
defaults, you can skip all the questions by running <userinput>yes "" |
make config</userinput> instead):</para>
<screen><userinput>make config</userinput></screen>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
<para>Now install it:</para>
<screen><userinput>make update</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contents-net" role="content"><title>Contents of Net-tools</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>arp, dnsdomainname (link to hostname), domainname (link to
hostname), hostname, ifconfig, nameif, netstat, nisdomainname (link to hostname),
plipconfig, rarp, route, slattach and ypdomainname (link to hostname)</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
<varlistentry id="arp">
<term><command>arp</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-net-tools arp"><primary sortas="b-arp">arp</primary></indexterm>
<para>is used to manipulate the kernel's ARP cache,
usually to add or delete an entry, or to dump the entire cache.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="dnsdomainname">
<term><command>dnsdomainname</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-net-tools dnsdomainname"><primary sortas="b-dnsdomainname">dnsdomainname</primary></indexterm>
<para>reports the system's DNS (Domain Name Server) domain name.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="domainname">
<term><command>domainname</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-net-tools domainname"><primary sortas="b-domainname">domainname</primary></indexterm>
<para>reports or sets the system's NIS/YP domain name.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="hostname">
<term><command>hostname</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-net-tools hostname"><primary sortas="b-hostname">hostname</primary></indexterm>
<para>reports or sets the name of the current host system.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="ifconfig">
<term><command>ifconfig</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-net-tools ifconfig"><primary sortas="b-ifconfig">ifconfig</primary></indexterm>
<para>is the main utility for configuring network interfaces.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="nameif">
<term><command>nameif</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-net-tools nameif"><primary sortas="b-nameif">nameif</primary></indexterm>
<para>names network interfaces based on MAC addresses.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="netstat">
<term><command>netstat</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-net-tools netstat"><primary sortas="b-netstat">netstat</primary></indexterm>
<para>is used to report network connections, routing tables, and interface
statistics..</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="nisdomainname">
<term><command>nisdomainname</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-net-tools nisdomainname"><primary sortas="b-nisdomainname">nisdomainname</primary></indexterm>
<para>does the same as domainname.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="plipconfig">
<term><command>plipconfig</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-net-tools plipconfig"><primary sortas="b-plipconfig">plipconfig</primary></indexterm>
<para>is used to fine tune the PLIP device parameters, to improve its performance.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="rarp">
<term><command>rarp</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-net-tools rarp"><primary sortas="b-rarp">rarp</primary></indexterm>
<para>is used to manipulate the kernel's RARP table.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="route">
<term><command>route</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-net-tools route"><primary sortas="b-route">route</primary></indexterm>
<para>is used to manipulate the IP routing table.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="slattach">
<term><command>slattach</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-net-tools slattach"><primary sortas="b-slattach">slattach</primary></indexterm>
<para>attaches a network interface to a serial line. This allows you to use normal
terminal lines for point-to-point links to other computers.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="ypdomainname">
<term><command>ypdomainname</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-net-tools ypdomainname"><primary sortas="b-ypdomainname">ypdomainname</primary></indexterm>
<para>does the same as domainname.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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