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authorPhil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>1999-04-21 08:59:55 +0000
committerPhil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>1999-04-21 08:59:55 +0000
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Add IrDA support; patch from Dag Brattli <dagb@cs.uit.no>
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This is net-tools 1.52. Notable changes since 1.51 include:
- Jean-Michel Vansteene updated the French translation.
+ - Dag Brattli contributed support for IrDA
+ - some bugs have been fixed
Notable changes since 1.50 include:
@@ -46,27 +48,20 @@ Notable changes since 1.50 include:
- Ralf Bächle provided a translation to German
You need kernel 2.0 or later to use these programs. These programs
-should compile cleanly with both glibc (version 2.0 or 2.1) and libc5.
-The `iptunnel' and `ipmaddr' programs require kernel version 2.2 or
-later.
+should compile cleanly with both glibc (version 2.0 or 2.1) and libc5,
+though support for libc5 is not well tested.
The NLS support was changed from catgets to GNU gettext by Arnaldo
Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> in June, 1998, to make the
source more readable. Translations to brazilian portuguese (pt_BR),
German (de) and French (fr) are available and others are welcome!
-ipfw has been removed from the distribution. Use ipfwadm instead; get
-it at <ftp://ftp.xos.nl/pub/linux/ipfwadm/>.
-
route/netstat -r do not yet support different address families
cleanly. IPX/DDP/AX25 people, please feel free to add the code.
ifconfig now supports changing media types for interfaces. This requires
a version 2.2 kernel, and many devices do not support it yet.
-The documentation is slimmed down. I think most of it was out of
-date.
-
The tools now support the layout of the 2.2 kernel /proc files (Bernd
Eckenfels).