The Net-tools package is a collection of programs for controlling the network subsystem of the Linux kernel.
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Download size: 194 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.3 MB
Estimated build time: 0.10 SBU
Required Patch (if compiled using GCC-3.4.x): http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/6.1/net-tools-1.60-gcc34-3.patch
Required Patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/6.1/net-tools-1.60-kernel_headers-2.patch
Required Patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/6.1/net-tools-1.60-mii_ioctl-1.patch
The Net-tools package installs a hostname program which will overwrite the existing program installed by Coreutils during a base LFS installation. If, for whatever reason, you need to reinstall the Coreutils package after installing Net-tools, you should use the coreutils-5.2.1-suppress_hostname_uptime_kill_su-1.patch patch if you wish to preserve the Net-tools hostname program.
The instructions below automate the configuration process by piping yes to the make config command. If you wish to run the interactive configuration process (by changing the instruction to just make config), 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—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.
Install Net-tools by running the following commands:
patch -Np1 -i ../net-tools-1.60-gcc34-3.patch && patch -Np1 -i ../net-tools-1.60-kernel_headers-2.patch && patch -Np1 -i ../net-tools-1.60-mii_ioctl-1.patch && yes "" | make config && sed -i -e 's|HAVE_IP_TOOLS 0|HAVE_IP_TOOLS 1|g' \ -e 's|HAVE_MII 0|HAVE_MII 1|g' config.h && sed -i -e 's|# HAVE_IP_TOOLS=0|HAVE_IP_TOOLS=1|g' \ -e 's|# HAVE_MII=0|HAVE_MII=1|g' config.make && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make update
yes "" | make config: Piping yes to make config skips the interactive configuration and accepts the defaults.
sed -i -e ...: These two seds change the configuration files to force building the ipmaddr, iptunnel and mii-tool programs.
Last updated on 2005-08-01 13:29:19 -0600