RHBA-2008:0691 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated net-tools package that fixes various bugs and adds an
enhancement is now available.

Description

The net-tools package contains basic networking tools, including ifconfig,
netstat, and route.

This updated package fixes the following bugs:

• the "ifconfig" command trimmed network interface names if they were

longer than 9 characters. In this updated package, network interface
names longer than 9 characters are displayed correctly.

• the init script for the netplug daemon, netplugd, returned incorrect

error codes, causing the "status" command to return an incorrect status. In
this updated package, the netplugd init script is Linux Standard Base (LSB)
compliant, which resolves this issue.

As well, the netstat man page has been updated to describe the statistics
output from the "netstat -s" command.

Users of net-tools are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves these issues and adds this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 206917 - ifconfig does not show the full interface name
• BZ - 242918 - Wrong init script

CVEs

(none)

References

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