Re: netstat with rose support?

["Chuck Hast" <wchast@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/13/06, Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 02:28:24PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
>
> > > Yes, you just need to recompile net-tools.
> >
> > I think the reason why rose is not enabled by default is because there are
> > some header files (kernel, libc, other package - cant remeber) which are not
> > available on all distributions.
> >
> > This used to be also the case for AX25, but that changed with recent libcs.
> >
> > Running configure is enough to enable ROSE support. If your system misses
> > some headers in that case, let me know so i can document this.
>
> Glibc 2.1 which is over 7 years old will suffice which is why I proposed
> the change at all.
>
> Asking users to rebuild their software without an urgent need is just
> raising the user pain level for distributions which go with the provided
> defaults so I figured it's going to be the most productive approach to
> convince you to change the defaults.
>
> Patch below,
>
>   Ralf
>
> diff -ur net-tools-1.60.orig/config.in net-tools-1.60/config.in
> --- net-tools-1.60.orig/config.in       Sun May 21 16:32:12 2000
> +++ net-tools-1.60/config.in    Thu Jul 13 15:17:30 2006
> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
>  bool 'Appletalk DDP protocol family' HAVE_AFATALK y
>  bool 'AX25 (packet radio) protocol family' HAVE_AFAX25 y
>  bool 'NET/ROM (packet radio) protocol family' HAVE_AFNETROM y
> -bool 'Rose (packet radio) protocol family' HAVE_AFROSE n
> +bool 'Rose (packet radio) protocol family' HAVE_AFROSE y
>  bool 'X.25 (CCITT) protocol family' HAVE_AFX25 y
>  bool 'Econet protocol family' HAVE_AFECONET n
>  bool 'DECnet protocol family' HAVE_AFDECnet n
> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
>  bool 'STRIP (Metricom radio) support' HAVE_HWSTRIP y
>  bool 'Token ring (generic) support' HAVE_HWTR y
>  bool 'AX25 (packet radio) support' HAVE_HWAX25 y
> -bool 'Rose (packet radio) support' HAVE_HWROSE n
> +bool 'Rose (packet radio) support' HAVE_HWROSE y
>  bool 'NET/ROM (packet radio) support' HAVE_HWNETROM y
>  bool 'X.25 (generic) support' HAVE_HWX25 y
>  bool 'DLCI/FRAD (frame relay) support' HAVE_HWFR y

I did the re-compile and see that the new netstat file in in there but I do not
see any info on the ROSE piece that is running on the target machine.

Indeed I see no indication that anything was changed except that the date
on the binaries is now that of today. Was there some other things that needed
to be updated also?



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