[3426] in linux-net channel archive
Re: net-tools for 2.0?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sun Jun 23 15:22:49 1996
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: tony@trishul.sci.gu.edu.au
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 16:51:02 +0100 (BST)
Cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <199606220009.KAA10813@sctnugen.ppp.gu.edu.au> from "tony@trishul.sci.gu.edu.au" at Jun 22, 96 10:09:07 am
> There is also the NetKit stuff, but the "current" versions are getting
> a little aged.
To all intents and purposes the "current" NetKit packages are the modified
and fixed up ones off the redhat site. (Note you dont need redhat to handle
these, get rpm2cpio and you can have them in a perfectly generic format).
> 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.
People have already done all the work for you.
> 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.
It's a lot of hard and very boring work. Various people are already doing
that work for Redhat, for Debian etc.
Alan
