Fedora 17 Update: iputils-20101006-16.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-20003
2012-12-09 05:15:23
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Name        : iputils
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 20101006
Release     : 16.fc17
URL         : http://www.skbuff.net/iputils
Summary     : Network monitoring tools including ping
Description :
The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network,
including ping. The ping command sends a series of ICMP protocol
ECHO_REQUEST packets to a specified network host to discover whether
the target machine is alive and receiving network traffic.

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Update Information:

Fix ping -I <interface>, enhance ping manpage, make SO_BINDTODEVICE failure fatal
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Dec  7 2012 Jan Synáček <jsynacek at redhat.com> 20101006-16
- Backport capability handling from master (fixes #870722 - ping -I interface
  isn't working) and drop unnecessary patches
- Drop subint patch and make SO_BINDTODEVICE failure fatal
- Comment capability patch
- Clarify ping -I in the manpage
- Add cap_net_admin to ping and ping6
* Mon Jun 25 2012 Jan Synáček <jsynacek at redhat.com> 20101006-15
- Ping fixes:
  + enable marking packets when the correct capabilities are set (#802197)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #870722 - ping -I interface isn't working
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870722
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