README

                Information about the net-tools package

NET-TOOLS	A collection of programs that form the base set of the
		NET-3 networking distribution for the Linux operating
		system.

This package includes the important tools for controlling the network
subsystem of the Linux kernel.  This includes arp, hostname, ifconfig,
netstat, rarp and route.  Additionally, this package contains
utilities relating to particular network hardware types (plipconfig,
slattach, mii-tool) and advanced aspects of IP configuration (iptunnel,
ipmaddr).

Please include the output of "program --version" when reporting bugs.


Contents:

   README		This file.

   INSTALLING		Installation instructions.

   COPYING		Your free copy of the GNU General Public License.

   TODO			Some things that need to be done.

The Homepage (including Git repository, release downloads, bug tracker and
mailing list) is hosted by SourceForge.net. Please consider joining the project
if you want to contribute:

           https://sourceforge.net/projects/net-tools/

There is a GitHub mirror available, if you prefer this for pull requests:

           https://github.com/ecki/net-tools/


                          Notes
                          -----

This is net-tools HEAD.

These have largely been tested against Linux kernels 2.6+.  They might work
against older ones if anyone actually still cares about those anymore.

They have largely been tested against recent glibc versions, but should work
on any POSIX compliant C library.  If you notice portability issues, please
flie a bug for us (or even send a patch!).

The NLS support by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> uses GNU
gettext.  Translations to Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR), German (de), Estonian
(ee), Czech (cz), and French (fr) are available.  Others are welcome!

The translated man pages are planned to be moved to the manpages-i10n
project in the next release. Thanks to Helge Kreutzmann.

net-tools is generally considered deprecated, in most cases use
the iproute2 package instead.

route/netstat -r do not yet support different address families cleanly.
IPX/DDP/AX25 people, please feel free to add the code.


Mike Frysinger
[email protected]

Phil Blundell
[email protected]

Bernd Eckenfels
[email protected]