net-tools is outdated and arp is no longer built by default

Rinndalir · 08-29-2016, 11:50 AM

I haven't used arp in a while but I tried today and it isn't working as expected.

The net-tools repo has seen updates in the last month but I don't see a new release. Also arp (and rarp) is no longer built by default.

kjhambrick · 08-29-2016, 01:40 PM

Rinndalir --

I am not certain about the most recent version of net-tools, but it looks like 14.2 and Current have the most up-to-date version of net-tools ( net-tools on SourceForge )

Did you try to run arp and rarp while logged in as root or as a 'joe' ?

The programs are in /sbin/ ( and slattach is in /usr/sbin/ ) so you'll not 'see' them unless you've got a 'full' root Environment.

-- kjh

From my Local rsync Repository ...

Code:

# -----[ 14.2 ]-----------------------------------------
#
# tar -tvf /home/dld/slackware/slackware-14.2-64/slackware64/n/net-tools-1.60.20120726git-x86_64-1.txz |grep 'bin/'

drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2012-07-26 16:08 bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root    128032 2012-07-26 16:08 bin/netstat
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      5600 2012-07-26 16:08 bin/ipmask
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     12904 2012-07-26 16:08 bin/hostname
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     15544 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/mii-tool
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      6896 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/plipconfig
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     27136 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/rarp
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     55360 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/arp
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     11160 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/nameif
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     19128 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/iptunnel
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     67968 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/ifconfig
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     56872 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/route
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     15472 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/ipmaddr
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2012-07-26 16:08 usr/sbin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     32960 2012-07-26 16:08 usr/sbin/slattach
#
# -----[ current ]--------------------------------------
#
# tar -tvf /home/dld/slackware/slackware-current-64/slackware64/n/net-tools-1.60.20120726git-x86_64-1.txz |grep 'bin/'

drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2012-07-26 16:08 bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root    128032 2012-07-26 16:08 bin/netstat
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      5600 2012-07-26 16:08 bin/ipmask
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     12904 2012-07-26 16:08 bin/hostname
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     15544 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/mii-tool
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      6896 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/plipconfig
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     27136 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/rarp
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     55360 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/arp
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     11160 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/nameif
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     19128 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/iptunnel
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     67968 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/ifconfig
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     56872 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/route
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     15472 2012-07-26 16:08 sbin/ipmaddr
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2012-07-26 16:08 usr/sbin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     32960 2012-07-26 16:08 usr/sbin/slattach

Rinndalir · 09-01-2016, 07:12 PM

Arp and rarp most likely removed because they no longer function as expected. See the commits from July and others this year.

It's possible they don't have time to do formal release and downstream just grabs the latest code from cvs/svn/git to build distro packages. That's not at all unusual nowadays and is actually very common.

Try this for example:

ls -l /var/log/packages/*git*

Rinndalir · 09-11-2016, 09:24 PM

net-tools gets the source using this command:

git archive --format=tar --remote=git://net-tools.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/net-tools/net-tools master > net-tools.tar.xz

So net-tools has not been rebuilt in over 4 years on slackware-current. And because it is pulling from master it probably only needs a package rebuild to bring it up to date.

kjhambrick · 09-12-2016, 01:55 AM

Thanks Rinndalir

I understand what you're saying now.

-- kjh

Alien Bob · 09-16-2016, 03:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rinndalir

I haven't used arp in a while but I tried today and it isn't working as expected.

What did you expect it to do? What worked differently than your expectations? What release of Slackware are you on? Without providing facts, no good answer.