[3413] in linux-net channel archive
Re: net-tools for 2.0?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tony@trishul.sci.gu.edu.au)
Sat Jun 22 18:55:15 1996
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 10:09:07 +1000
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: tony@trishul.sci.gu.edu.au
> : I found the net-tools-1.3.50-beta6 (or something close to that) on a site
> : somewhere in Germany, but I've lost the file and the URL. Anyone have
> See the WWW-Homepage at:
> http://www.inka.de/sites/lina/linux/NetTools/
>
> or the Archive with: net-tools-1.32-alpha.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.inka.de/pub/comp/Linux/networking/NetTools/
> ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk:/pub/linux/Networking/PROGRAMS/NetTools/
Point is, that this package only has these utilities:
arp hostname ifconfig netstat rarp route
(and also dnsdomainname domainname nisdomainname and ypdomainname,
which are simply symlinks to hostname).
> PS: Yes its alpha, but thats the only version which will work with 2.0.
Oh jeez, really? And if I ever boot my trusty (heavily patched but
highly stable) 1.2.13 kernel again, I can't use these programs? OUCH!
There is also the NetKit stuff, but the "current" versions are getting
a little aged.
NetKit-A-0.10 (June-Aug 95) contains the following packages:
bootp-2.4.3
bootpd
bootpef
bootpgw
bootptest
bootpc.v031
bootpc
dip-3.3.7n
uucp
dip (and diplogin as a symlink)
icmpinfo-1.10
icmpinfo
netdate
pidentd-2.6.1
in.identd
traceroute-4.4BSD
traceroute
ytalk-3.0.2
ytalk
net-tools-1.2.0
(see above for 1.32-alpha)
(bootpc.v050, dip-3.3.7o, and icmpinfo-1.11 exist).
NetKit-B-0.06 (Sept 94) contains these:
comsat ftpd
libtelnet portmap.old
rdist routed
rpcgen rshd
rwall slattach.new
finger tftp
lpr arp
rexecd timed
rpcgen.new rarpd
rwho rpc.rusersd
talkd rup
fingerd sliplogin
ping tftpd
rlogin biff
rpcinfo inetd
rwhod rcp
telnet rpc.rwalld
ftp rusers
portmap talk
rlogind rsh
slattach telnetd
There are also more recent packages for many of these programs than
what's included in here.
nfs-server-2.2beta16 contains:
rpc.mountd
rpc.nfsd
bind (various incarnations of 4.9.3, -p1 is Dec 95) contains:
named
named-xfer
named.reload
named.restart
ndc
dig
dnsquery
host
nslookup
Not to mention a sh*tload of other packages like apache/httpd,
wu-ftpd, irc, etc, etc, etc...
I'm trying to recompile all my networking software. It's all very
confusing, and time-consuming trying to work out what's what :-(
And frustrating to find that a lot of the older stuff simply doesn't
compile with gcc-2.7.2/libc-5.3.12/linux-2.0.0 without (usually minor,
sometimes major) hacking.
Aargh! [gimme another valium... another of the NetKit-A-0.10 packages
failed to compile!]
It seems that new sets of networking code packages need to be released
for linux, and it would be really, REALLY nice if it was all put
together in nice packages in the spirit of how the NetKits were done.
It would certainly save people like myself who don't know the various
networking tools very well a lot of heartache.
Cheers
Tony
