1 diff -up net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/arp.8.man-obsolete net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/arp.8
2 --- net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/arp.8.man-obsolete 2009-09-01 11:28:22.000000000 +0200
3 +++ net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/arp.8 2009-09-01 11:28:22.000000000 +0200
5 .TH ARP 8 "5 Jan 1999" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
8 arp \- manipulate the system ARP cache
13 @@ -44,6 +46,10 @@ arp \- manipulate the system ARP cache
19 +This program is obsolete. For replacement check \fBip neighbor\fR.
23 manipulates the kernel's ARP cache in various ways. The primary options
24 @@ -51,6 +57,7 @@ are clearing an address mapping entry an
25 debugging purposes, the
27 program also allows a complete dump of the ARP cache.
32 @@ -107,6 +114,7 @@ table. For
33 entries the specified interface is the interface on which ARP requests will
38 This has to be different from the interface to which the IP
39 datagrams will be routed.
40 @@ -171,6 +179,7 @@ flag. Permanent entries are marked with
41 and published entries have the
48 @@ -179,8 +188,10 @@ flag.
54 -rarp(8), route(8), ifconfig(8), netstat(8)
58 Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org> with a lot of improvements
59 from net-tools Maintainer Bernd Eckenfels <net-tools@lina.inka.de>.
60 diff -up net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/ethers.5.man-obsolete net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/ethers.5
61 --- net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/ethers.5.man-obsolete 1999-01-09 16:55:31.000000000 +0100
62 +++ net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/ethers.5 2009-09-01 11:28:22.000000000 +0200
64 .TH ETHERS 5 "April 26th, 1996" "" "File formats"
66 .SH NAME \"{{{roff}}}\"{{{
67 ethers \- Ethernet address to IP number database
71 \fB/etc/ethers\fP contains 48 bit Ethernet addresses and their corresponding
72 IP numbers, one line for each IP number:
73 @@ -20,12 +22,11 @@ which represents one byte of the address
74 order (big-endian). The \fIIP-number\fP may be a hostname which
75 can be resolved by DNS or a dot separated number.
88 diff -up net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/ifconfig.8.man-obsolete net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/ifconfig.8
89 --- net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/ifconfig.8.man-obsolete 2009-09-01 11:28:22.000000000 +0200
90 +++ net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/ifconfig.8 2009-09-01 11:28:22.000000000 +0200
92 .TH IFCONFIG 8 "14 August 2000" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
95 ifconfig \- configure a network interface
98 .B "ifconfig [interface]"
100 .B "ifconfig interface [aftype] options | address ..."
104 +This program is obsolete!
105 +For replacement check \fBip addr\fR and \fBip link\fR.
106 +For statistics use \fBip -s link\fR.
110 is used to configure the kernel-resident network interfaces. It is
111 @@ -44,6 +53,7 @@ octal, or hexadecimal, as specified in t
112 or 0X implies hexadecimal; otherwise, a leading '0' implies octal; otherwise,
113 the number is interpreted as decimal). Use of hexamedial and octal numbers
114 is not RFC-compliant and therefore its use is discouraged and may go away.
119 @@ -172,6 +182,7 @@ Set the length of the transmit queue of
120 to small values for slower devices with a high latency (modem links, ISDN)
121 to prevent fast bulk transfers from disturbing interactive traffic like
125 Since kernel release 2.2 there are no explicit interface statistics for
126 alias interfaces anymore. The statistics printed for the original address
127 @@ -184,17 +195,27 @@ command.
128 Interrupt problems with Ethernet device drivers fail with EAGAIN. See
129 .I http://www.scyld.com/expert/irq-conflict.html
130 for more information.
137 .I /proc/net/if_inet6
140 +Ifconfig uses obsolete kernel interface.
141 +It uses the ioctl access method to get the full address information,
142 +which limits hardware addresses to 8 bytes.
143 +Since an Infiniband address is 20 bytes,
144 +only the first 8 bytes of Infiniband address are displayed.
146 While appletalk DDP and IPX addresses will be displayed they cannot be
147 altered by this command.
150 -route(8), netstat(8), arp(8), rarp(8), ipchains(8)
154 Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
156 diff -up net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/nameif.8.man-obsolete net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/nameif.8
157 --- net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/nameif.8.man-obsolete 2000-10-18 19:26:29.000000000 +0200
158 +++ net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/nameif.8 2009-09-01 12:15:24.000000000 +0200
160 .TH NAMEIF 8 "18 Oct 2000" "net-tools" "Linux's Administrator's Manual"
163 nameif \- name network interfaces based on MAC addresses
166 .B "nameif [-c configfile] [-s]"
168 .B "nameif [-c configfile] [-s] {interface macaddress}"
172 +This program is obsolete. For replacement check \fBip link\fR.
173 +This functionality is also much better provided by udev methods.
177 renames network interfaces based on mac addresses. When no arguments are
178 @@ -31,5 +39,9 @@ should be run before the interface is up
187 Only works for Ethernet currently.
188 diff -up net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/netstat.8.man-obsolete net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/netstat.8
189 --- net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/netstat.8.man-obsolete 2009-09-01 11:28:22.000000000 +0200
190 +++ net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/netstat.8 2009-09-01 11:28:22.000000000 +0200
191 @@ -92,6 +92,14 @@ netstat \- Print network connections, ro
197 +This program is obsolete.
198 +Replacement for \fBnetstat\fR is \fBss\fR.
199 +Replacement for \fBnetstat -r\fR is \fBip route\fR.
200 +Replacement for \fBnetstat -i\fR is \fBip -s link\fR.
201 +Replacement for \fBnetstat -g\fR is \fBip maddr\fR.
205 prints information about the Linux networking subsystem. The type of
206 @@ -438,13 +446,11 @@ status information via the following fil
221 Occasionally strange information may appear if a socket changes
222 as it is viewed. This is unlikely to occur.
223 diff -up net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/route.8.man-obsolete net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/route.8
224 --- net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/route.8.man-obsolete 2000-05-21 20:59:03.000000000 +0200
225 +++ net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/route.8 2009-09-01 11:28:22.000000000 +0200
227 .TH ROUTE 8 "2 January 2000" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
230 route \- show / manipulate the IP routing table
235 @@ -52,6 +54,11 @@ If]
242 +This program is obsolete. For replacement check \fBip route\fR.
246 manipulates the kernel's IP routing tables. Its primary use is to set
247 @@ -306,6 +313,7 @@ address is not needed for the interface
249 Whether or not the hardware address for the cached route is up to date.
253 .I /proc/net/ipv6_route
255 @@ -313,9 +321,11 @@ Whether or not the hardware address for
257 .I /proc/net/rt_cache
261 -.I ifconfig(8), netstat(8), arp(8), rarp(8)
267 for Linux was originally written by Fred N. van Kempen,