-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
