[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN --- [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch. [COPY] [COPY] Filename: package/.../net-tools/net-tools.desc [COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 - 2012 The OpenSDE Project [COPY] Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project [COPY] Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf [COPY] [COPY] More information can be found in the files COPYING and README. [COPY] [COPY] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify [COPY] it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by [COPY] the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the [COPY] GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING. [COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END --- [I] A collection of network configuration programs for Linux [T] The net-tools package contains a collection of programs that form the base [T] set of the NET-3 networking distribution for the Linux operating system. [T] It contains the important tools for controlling the network subsystem of the [T] Linux kernel including arp, ifconfig, netstat, rarp and route. [T] Additionally it provides utilities relating to particular network hardware [T] types (plipconfig, slattach), nameif for naming network interfaces based on [T] MAC addresses. [T] [T] Important: [T] For modern Linux systems most net-tools programs are obsolete now! [T] It is highly recommended to use the command set provided by the iproute2 [T] package and additional applications like ifrename and ethtool. [U] http://net-tools.berlios.de [U] http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Net-tools [U] http://bernd.eckenfels.net/net-tools.php [A] Phil Blundell [A] Bernd Eckenfels [M] The OpenSDE Community [C] base/system [F] DIETLIBC NOPARALLEL [L] GPL [S] Stable [V] 1.60.20121017-git8217b88b [P] X -?---5---9 184.500 [D] 3647155460 net-tools-1.60.20121017-git8217b88b.tar.bz2 http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/net-tools/