source: networking/netprogs/net-tools.xml@ 79d191ee

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  <!ENTITY net-tools-md5sum        "6be14ed473cacdd68edeaa9605adc469">
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  <!ENTITY net-tools-time          "less than 0.1 SBU">
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<sect1 id="net-tools" xreflabel="Net-tools-&net-tools-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="net-tools.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Net-tools-&net-tools-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="net-tools">
    <primary sortas="a-Net-tools">Net-tools</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Net-tools</title>

    <para>The <application>Net-tools</application> package is a collection
    of programs for controlling the network subsystem of the Linux
    kernel.</para>

    &lfs75_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&net-tools-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&net-tools-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &net-tools-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &net-tools-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &net-tools-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &net-tools-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/net-tools"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Net-tools</title>

    <note>
      <para>The <application>Net-tools</application> package installs a
      <command>hostname</command> program which will overwrite the existing
      program installed by <application>Inetutils</application> during a base
      LFS installation. If, for whatever reason, you need to reinstall the
      <application>Inetutils</application> package after installing
      <application>Net-tools</application>, you should add
      <command>--disable-hostname</command> to the Inetutils
      <command>configure</command> command in LFS if you wish to preserve the
      <application>Net-tools</application> <command>hostname</command>
      program.</para>
    </note>

    <para id="net-tools-automate-example" xreflabel="Net-tools">The
    instructions below automate the configuration process by piping
    <command>yes</command> to the <command>make config</command> command. If
    you wish to run the interactive configuration process (by changing the
    instruction to just <command>make config</command>), but you are not sure
    how to answer all the questions, then just accept the defaults. This will
    be just fine in the majority of cases. What you're asked here is a bunch of
    questions about which network protocols you've enabled in your kernel. The
    default answers will enable the tools from this package to work with the
    most common protocols: TCP, PPP, and several others. You still need to
    actually enable these protocols in the kernel&mdash;what you do here is
    merely tell the package to include support for those protocols in its
    programs, but it's up to the kernel to make the protocols available.</para>

    <note><para>This package has several unneeded protocols and hardware device
    specific functions that are obsolete.  To only build the minimum needed for
    your system, skip the <command>yes</command> command and answer each
    question interactively.  The minimum needed options are 'UNIX protocol
    family' and 'INET (TCP/IP) protocol family'.</para></note>

    <para>Install <application>Net-tools</application> by running the
    following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i -e '/Token/s/y$/n/'        config.in &amp;&amp;
sed -i -e '/HAVE_HWSTRIP/s/y$/n/' config.in &amp;&amp;
yes "" | make config                 &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role='root'><userinput>make update</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><command>sed -i -e '/Token/s/y$/n/' config.in</command>: Change the
    default for building obsolete token ring support to no.  This is a
    simpler change than changing the location for the token ring headers.
    </para>

    <para><command>sed -i -e '/HAVE_HWSTRIP/s/y$/n/' config.in</command>:
    Removes obsolete Metricom radio support that requires a header no longer
    included in the kernel.  </para>

    <para><command>yes "" | make config</command>: Piping <command>yes</command>
    to <command>make config</command> skips the interactive configuration and
    accepts the defaults.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>arp, dnsdomainname, domainname, hostname,
        ifconfig, ipmaddr, iptunnel, mii-tool, nameif, netstat,
        nisdomainname, plipconfig, rarp, route, slattach, and
        ypdomainname</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="arp">
        <term><command>arp</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to manipulate the kernel's ARP cache, usually
          to add or delete an entry, or to dump the entire cache.</para>
          <indexterm zone="net-tools arp">
            <primary sortas="b-arp">arp</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="dnsdomainname">
        <term><command>dnsdomainname</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>reports the system's DNS domain name.</para>
          <indexterm zone="net-tools dnsdomainname">
            <primary sortas="b-dnsdomainname">dnsdomainname</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="domainname">
        <term><command>domainname</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>reports or sets the system's NIS/YP domain name.</para>
          <indexterm zone="net-tools domainname">
            <primary sortas="b-domainname">domainname</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="hostname">
        <term><command>hostname</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>reports or sets the name of the current host system.</para>
          <indexterm zone="net-tools hostname">
            <primary sortas="b-hostname">hostname</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="ifconfig">
        <term><command>ifconfig</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is the main utility for configuring network interfaces.</para>
          <indexterm zone="net-tools ifconfig">
            <primary sortas="b-ifconfig">ifconfig</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="ipmaddr">
        <term><command>ipmaddr</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>adds, deletes and shows an interface's multicast addresses.</para>
          <indexterm zone="net-tools ipmaddr">
            <primary sortas="b-ipmaddr">ipmaddr</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="iptunnel">
        <term><command>iptunnel</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>adds, changes, deletes and shows an interface's tunnels.</para>
          <indexterm zone="net-tools iptunnel">
            <primary sortas="b-iptunnel">iptunnel</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="mii-tool">
        <term><command>mii-tool</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>checks or sets the status of a network interface's Media Independent
          Interface (MII) unit.</para>
          <indexterm zone="net-tools mii-tool">
            <primary sortas="b-mii-tool">mii-tool</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="nameif">
        <term><command>nameif</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>names network interfaces based on MAC addresses.</para>
          <indexterm zone="net-tools nameif">
            <primary sortas="b-nameif">nameif</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="netstat">
        <term><command>netstat</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to report network connections, routing tables, and interface
          statistics.</para>
          <indexterm zone="net-tools netstat">
            <primary sortas="b-netstat">netstat</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="nisdomainname">
        <term><command>nisdomainname</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>does the same as <command>domainname</command>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="net-tools nisdomainname">
            <primary sortas="b-nisdomainname">nisdomainname</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="plipconfig">
        <term><command>plipconfig</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to fine tune the PLIP device parameters, to
          improve its performance.</para>
          <indexterm zone="net-tools plipconfig">
            <primary sortas="b-plipconfig">plipconfig</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rarp">
        <term><command>rarp</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to manipulate the kernel's RARP table.</para>
          <indexterm zone="net-tools rarp">
            <primary sortas="b-rarp">rarp</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="route">
        <term><command>route</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to manipulate the IP routing table.</para>
          <indexterm zone="net-tools route">
            <primary sortas="b-route">route</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="slattach">
        <term><command>slattach</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>attaches a network interface to a serial line. This allows you to use
          normal terminal lines for point-to-point links to other computers.</para>
          <indexterm zone="net-tools slattach">
            <primary sortas="b-slattach">slattach</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="ypdomainname">
        <term><command>ypdomainname</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>does the same as <command>domainname</command>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="net-tools ypdomainname">
            <primary sortas="b-ypdomainname">ypdomainname</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>