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<sect1 id="ch-system-net-tools" xreflabel="Net-tools">
<title>Installing Net-tools-&net-tools-version;</title>
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<para>The Net-tools package contains programs for basic networking.</para>

<screen>&buildtime; &net-tools-time;
&diskspace; &net-tools-compsize;</screen>

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<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of Net-tools</title>

<para>If you don't know what to answer to all the questions asked during the
<command>make config</command> phase below, 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 -- what you do here is merely
telling the package to include support for those protocols in its programs,
but it's up to the kernel to make the protocols available.</para>

<para>First fix a small syntax problem in the sources of the
<command>mii-tool</command> program:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&net-tools-mii-patch;</userinput></screen>

<para>Now prepare Net-tools for compilation (if you intend to accept the
defaults, you can skip all the questions by running <userinput>yes "" |
make config</userinput> instead):</para>

<screen><userinput>make config</userinput></screen>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>And install it:</para>

<screen><userinput>make update</userinput></screen>

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</sect1>