| 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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| 2 |
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| 3 | <sect2>
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| 4 | <title>Installation of Net-tools</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <para>If you don't know what to answer to all the questions asked during
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| 7 | the <userinput>make</userinput> phase, then just accept the defaults, which
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| 8 | will be just fine in the majority of the cases. What you are asked here
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| 9 | are a bunch of questions relating to the kind of network protocols that you
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| 10 | have enabled in your kernel.</para>
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| 11 |
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| 12 | <para>The default answers will enable the tools from this package to work
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| 13 | with the most common protocols such as TCP, PPP and a bunch of others. You
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| 14 | still need to actually enable these protocols in the kernel. What you do
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| 15 | here is merely telling the programs to be able to use those protocols, but
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| 16 | it's up to the kernel to make them available to the system.</para>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <para>If you intend to accept the default settings, you may skip
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| 19 | the questions generated by <emphasis>make</emphasis> by runing
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| 20 | <userinput>yes "" | make</userinput>.</para>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <para>Finish installing the package:</para>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <para><screen><userinput>make update</userinput></screen></para>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <para>The <emphasis>update</emphasis> option to <userinput>make</userinput>
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| 31 | works similarly to the <emphasis>install</emphasis> option, with one
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| 32 | exception: it doesn't make backups of files it's replacing. One of the
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| 33 | things net-tools replaces is sh-utils's version of /bin/hostname
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| 34 | (net-tools's version is far better than sh-utils's version).</para>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <para>Also, if you decide to reinstall this package at some point in the
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| 37 | future, a make update won't backup all the files from a previous net-tools
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| 38 | installation.</para>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | </sect2>
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| 41 |
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