Fedora 17 Update: iputils-20101006-16.fc17
updates at fedoraproject.org
updates at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 9 08:49:01 UTC 2013
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-20003
2012-12-09 05:15:23
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Update Information:
Fix ping -I <interface>, enhance ping manpage, make SO_BINDTODEVICE failure fatal
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
References:
[ 1 ] Bug #870722 - ping -I interface isn't working
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870722
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update iputils' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
More information about the package-announce
mailing list