a little bit outdated networking stuff
From CRUX Handbook: "The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and recent tools and libraries." Firstly, /etc/{services,protocols} are not up to date. I am suggesting using iana-etc[1]. Note, this will affect, for example, iptables rules with protocol names people are currently using. Ticket created, id: 94. Current core/netkit-base consists of the two files mentioned above (which hopefully can be updated), ping, inetd. Latest Changelog entry in netkit-base-0.17 is dated 24-Jul-2000. As I can see, modern distros prefer Iputils[1] which can provide at least more featured 'ping' command (just compare man pages). It is not a simple 'I want' but 'I need and many more people might need' features like 'ping -I eth1'. But Iputils is not a bleeding age project too (11/09/02). Nothing against inetd at this point. Of coarse, all above is IMHO. [1] http://www.sethwklein.net/projects/iana-etc [2] http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Iputils -- Mikhail Kolesnik ICQ: 260259143 IRC: mike_k at freenode/#crux, rusnet/#yalta Jabber: mike_k@jabber.lafox.net NIC handle: MKK83-UANIC
Hi Mike, On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 21:32:06 +0300, Mikhail Kolesnik wrote: [iana-etc, iputils] Thanks for the suggestions, both make sense IMO. I've added it to the todo list for 2.3, along with the iproute2 evaluation Regards, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@smts.ch Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.smts.ch
Hello, Johannes. On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:15:56 +0200 Johannes Winkelmann <jw@smts.ch> wrote:
Hi Mike,
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 21:32:06 +0300, Mikhail Kolesnik wrote: [iana-etc, iputils]
Thanks for the suggestions, both make sense IMO. I've added it to the todo list for 2.3, along with the iproute2 evaluation
Regards, Johannes
Thanks for that and especially for iproute2. At the time I am 'playing' with ipsec-tools[1] (port of KAME's implementation). So far looks well, but have to try automatic key exchange and cooperation with other OS's. There are already some very useful advanced tools in contrib: bridge-utils, quagga(zebra). It would be nice to have ebtables[2] also. Quagga, a routing daemon collection, needs some good rc.d scripts and testing. Unfortunately, not many crux users (at the moment) have an ability to test all that in heterogeneous environment. That doesn't mean nobody would use such tools if they were available in 'opt'. So, if someone is interested, lets make good & tested_in_real_env ports for contrib and some day we'll see advanced networking tools in opt. Hope it is not in conflict with KISS. [1] http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/ -- Mikhail Kolesnik ICQ: 260259143 IRC: mike_k at freenode/#crux, rusnet/#yalta Jabber: mike_k@jabber.lafox.net NIC handle: MKK83-UANIC
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