The NetTools package contains a lot of the basic utils
that you will use to communicate with network devices.
This includes programs like arp
, rarp
, route
,
ifconfig
and netstat
.
Since these programs do not know about Token Ring by default,
you will need to add the NetTools patch so these utilities
can work more efficiently with the Token Ring driver.
The current version of NetTools for 1.2.x kernels is 1.2.0. If you are running a 2.0 kernel, your nettools is most likely already up to date. However, you can get the latest source from:
ftp://tapac.inka.de/pub/comp/Linux/networking/NetTools/
cp net-tools-1.2.0.patched.tar.gz /usr/src
tar -zxvof /usr/src/net-tools-1.2.0.tar.gz
cd /usr/src/net
make install