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[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 The OpenSDE Project |
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[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 - 2007 The OpenSDE Project |
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[COPY] Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project |
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[COPY] GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING. |
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[I] Configuration tools for Linux networking |
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[T] This package includes the important tools for controlling the network |
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[T] subsystem of the Linux kernel. This includes arp, hostname, ifconfig, |
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[T] netstat, rarp and route. Additionally, this package contains |
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[T] utilities relating to particular network hardware types (plipconfig, |
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[T] slattach) and a "netmask calculator" called 'ipnm2nwbc'. |
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[U] http://www.inka.de/sites/lina/linux/NetTools/ |
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[I] A collection of network configuration programs for Linux |
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[T] The net-tools package contains a collection of programs that form the base |
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[T] set of the NET-3 networking distribution for the Linux operating system. |
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[T] It contains the important tools for controlling the network subsystem of the |
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[T] Linux kernel including arp, hostname, ifconfig, netstat, rarp and route. |
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[T] Additionally it provides utilities relating to particular network hardware |
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[T] types (plipconfig, slattach), nameif for naming network interfaces based on |
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[T] MAC addresses and ether-wake which generates and transmits Wake-On-LAN (WOL) |
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[T] "Magic Packets", used for restarting machines that have been soft-powered- |
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[T] down (ACPI D3-warm state). |
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[T] Important: |
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[T] For modern Linux systems most net-tools programs are obsolete now! |
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[T] It is highly recommended to use the command set provided by the iproute2 |
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[T] package and additional applications like ifrename and ethtool. |
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[U] http://net-tools.berlios.de |
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[U] http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Net-tools |
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[U] http://bernd.eckenfels.net/net-tools.php |
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[A] Phil Blundell <[email protected]> |
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[A] Bernd Eckenfels <[email protected]> |
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