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net-tools - Basic networking tools.

License: GPL
Vendor: Scientific Linux
Description:
The net-tools package contains basic networking tools, including
ifconfig, netstat, route, and others.

Packages

net-tools-1.60-82.el5.i386 [361 KiB] Changelog by Jiri Popelka (2011-08-30):
- hostname -s returns short host name even if the host name doesn't resolve (#319981)
- mii-tool now checks only generic MII registers defined in <linux/mii.h> (#531980)
- fixed statistics.c to use unsigned long long (instead of int)
  to handle 64 bit integers (#622734)
- prevent 'netstat -nr -A inet6' from smashing stack
  when /proc/net/ipv6_route is broken (#668047)
- Improve route(8) man page saying that 'route mss' actually sets MTU (#699698)
- patch netstat to separate basename of -p only if it is absolute path in order
  to make argv[0]="sshd pty/0" display as sshd, and not as /0 (#707427)
- plipconfig man page and usage output fixes (#707460)
- improved netstat_stop_trim.patch to not truncate IPV6 UDP sockets (#732983)

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