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Linux base networking tools

3 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2017-12-21 · latest 2025-05-22

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  1. …Independently, the original came up with its own, quite different, manual page 3 years later: https://github.com/ecki/net-tools/blob/master/man/en_US/iptu... Then Debian imported that! https://salsa.debian.org/debian/net-tools/-/blob/debian…
    comment by JdeBP · 2025-05-22 · in Why does Debian change software?
  2. …one of which is directly contradicted by git repository activity as recent as 2016) founders. * https://github.com/ecki/net-tools/commits/master One of the more disappointing things about Linux's ifconfig is that this: # ifconfig lo inet6…
  3. …speak to ss and ip, but apparently netstat actually operates by opening these exact files [1]. [1] https://github.com/ecki/net-tools/blob/master/lib/pathnames....
    comment by niftich · 2017-12-21 · in Netstat without netstat