diff -up net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/arp.8.man-obsolete net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/arp.8

--- net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/arp.8.man-obsolete	2009-09-01 11:28:22.000000000 +0200

+++ net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/arp.8	2009-09-01 11:28:22.000000000 +0200

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@

 .TH ARP 8 "5 Jan 1999" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"

+

 .SH NAME

 arp \- manipulate the system ARP cache

+

 .SH SYNOPSIS

 .B arp 

 .RB [ \-evn ] 

@@ -44,6 +46,10 @@ arp \- manipulate the system ARP cache

 .RB [ "-i if" ]

 .B -f [filename]

+.SH NOTE

+.P 

+This program is obsolete. For replacement check \fBip neighbor\fR.

+

 .SH DESCRIPTION

 .B Arp

 manipulates the kernel's ARP cache in various ways.  The primary options

@@ -51,6 +57,7 @@ are clearing an address mapping entry an

 debugging purposes, the

 .B arp

 program also allows a complete dump of the ARP cache.

+

 .SH OPTIONS

 .TP

 .B "\-v, \-\-verbose"

@@ -107,6 +114,7 @@ table. For

 entries the specified interface is the interface on which ARP requests will

 be answered. 

 .br

+

 .B NOTE:

 This has to be different from the interface to which the IP

 datagrams will be routed.

@@ -171,6 +179,7 @@ flag. Permanent entries are marked with

 and published entries have the

 .B P

 flag.

+

 .SH FILES

 .I /proc/net/arp,

 .br

@@ -179,8 +188,10 @@ flag.

 .I /etc/hosts

 .br

 .I /etc/ethers

+

 .SH SEE ALSO

-rarp(8), route(8), ifconfig(8), netstat(8)

+ip(8)

+

 .SH AUTHORS

 Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org> with a lot of improvements

 from net-tools Maintainer Bernd Eckenfels <net-tools@lina.inka.de>.

diff -up net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/ethers.5.man-obsolete net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/ethers.5

--- net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/ethers.5.man-obsolete	1999-01-09 16:55:31.000000000 +0100

+++ net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/ethers.5	2009-09-01 11:28:22.000000000 +0200

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@

 .TH ETHERS 5 "April 26th, 1996" "" "File formats"

+

 .SH NAME \"{{{roff}}}\"{{{

 ethers \- Ethernet address to IP number database

 .\"}}}

+

 .SH DESCRIPTION \"{{{

 \fB/etc/ethers\fP contains 48 bit Ethernet addresses and their corresponding

 IP numbers, one line for each IP number:

@@ -20,12 +22,11 @@ which represents one byte of the address

 order (big-endian).  The \fIIP-number\fP may be a hostname which

 can be resolved by DNS or a dot separated number.

 .\"}}}

+

 .SH EXAMPLES \"{{{

 08:00:20:00:61:CA  pal

 .\"}}}

+

 .SH FILES \"{{{

 /etc/ethers

 .\"}}}

-.SH "SEE ALSO" \"{{{

-rarp(8)

-.\"}}}

diff -up net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/ifconfig.8.man-obsolete net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/ifconfig.8

--- net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/ifconfig.8.man-obsolete	2009-09-01 11:28:22.000000000 +0200

+++ net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/ifconfig.8	2009-09-01 11:28:22.000000000 +0200

@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@

 .TH IFCONFIG 8 "14 August 2000" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"

+

 .SH NAME

 ifconfig \- configure a network interface

+

 .SH SYNOPSIS

 .B "ifconfig [interface]"

 .br

 .B "ifconfig interface [aftype] options | address ..."

+

+.SH NOTE

+.P 

+This program is obsolete!

+For replacement check \fBip addr\fR and \fBip link\fR.

+For statistics use \fBip -s link\fR.

+

 .SH DESCRIPTION

 .B Ifconfig

 is used to configure the kernel-resident network interfaces.  It is

@@ -44,6 +53,7 @@ octal, or hexadecimal, as specified in t

 or 0X implies hexadecimal; otherwise, a leading '0' implies octal; otherwise,

 the number is interpreted as decimal). Use of hexamedial and octal numbers

 is not RFC-compliant and therefore its use is discouraged and may go away.

+

 .SH OPTIONS

 .TP

 .B interface

@@ -172,6 +182,7 @@ Set the length of the transmit queue of 

 to small values for slower devices with a high latency (modem links, ISDN)

 to prevent fast bulk transfers from disturbing interactive traffic like

 telnet too much. 

+

 .SH NOTES

 Since kernel release 2.2 there are no explicit interface statistics for

 alias interfaces anymore. The statistics printed for the original address

@@ -184,17 +195,27 @@ command.

 Interrupt problems with Ethernet device drivers fail with EAGAIN. See

 .I http://www.scyld.com/expert/irq-conflict.html

 for more information.

+

 .SH FILES

 .I /proc/net/socket 

 .br

 .I /proc/net/dev

 .br

 .I /proc/net/if_inet6

+

 .SH BUGS

+Ifconfig uses obsolete kernel interface.

+It uses the ioctl access method to get the full address information,

+which limits hardware addresses to 8 bytes.

+Since an Infiniband address is 20 bytes,

+only the first 8 bytes of Infiniband address are displayed.

+.LP

 While appletalk DDP and IPX addresses will be displayed they cannot be

 altered by this command.

+

 .SH SEE ALSO

-route(8), netstat(8), arp(8), rarp(8), ipchains(8)

+ip(8)

+

 .SH AUTHORS

 Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>

 .br

diff -up net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/nameif.8.man-obsolete net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/nameif.8

--- net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/nameif.8.man-obsolete	2000-10-18 19:26:29.000000000 +0200

+++ net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/nameif.8	2009-09-01 12:15:24.000000000 +0200

@@ -1,10 +1,18 @@

 .TH NAMEIF 8 "18 Oct 2000" "net-tools" "Linux's Administrator's Manual"

+

 .SH NAME

 nameif \- name network interfaces based on MAC addresses

+

 .SH SYNOPSIS

 .B "nameif [-c configfile] [-s]"

 .br

 .B "nameif [-c configfile] [-s] {interface macaddress}"

+

+.SH NOTE

+.P 

+This program is obsolete. For replacement check \fBip link\fR.

+This functionality is also much better provided by udev methods.

+

 .SH DESCRIPTION

 .B nameif 

 renames network interfaces based on mac addresses. When no arguments are

@@ -31,5 +39,9 @@ should be run before the interface is up

 .SH FILES

 /etc/mactab

+

+.SH SEE ALSO

+ip(8), udev(7)

+

 .SH BUGS

 Only works for Ethernet currently.

diff -up net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/netstat.8.man-obsolete net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/netstat.8

--- net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/netstat.8.man-obsolete	2009-09-01 11:28:22.000000000 +0200

+++ net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/netstat.8	2009-09-01 11:28:22.000000000 +0200

@@ -92,6 +92,14 @@ netstat \- Print network connections, ro

 .RB [ \-\-netrom ]

 .RB [ \-\-ddp ]

+.SH NOTE

+.P 

+This program is obsolete.

+Replacement for \fBnetstat\fR is \fBnetlist\fR.

+Replacement for \fBnetstat -r\fR is \fBip route\fR.

+Replacement for \fBnetstat -i\fR is \fBip -s link\fR.

+Replacement for \fBnetstat -g\fR is \fBip maddr\fR.

+

 .SH DESCRIPTION

 .B Netstat

 prints information about the Linux networking subsystem.  The type of

@@ -438,13 +446,11 @@ status information via the following fil

 -- statistics

 .fi

 .P

+

 .SH SEE ALSO

-.BR route (8), 

-.BR ifconfig (8), 

-.BR ipchains (8),

-.BR iptables (8),

-.BR proc (5)

+.BR netlist (1), ip(8)

 .P

+

 .SH BUGS

 Occasionally strange information may appear if a socket changes

 as it is viewed. This is unlikely to occur.

diff -up net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/route.8.man-obsolete net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/route.8

--- net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/route.8.man-obsolete	2000-05-21 20:59:03.000000000 +0200

+++ net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/route.8	2009-09-01 11:28:22.000000000 +0200

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@

 .TH ROUTE 8 "2 January 2000" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"

+

 .SH NAME

 route \- show / manipulate the IP routing table

+

 .SH SYNOPSIS

 .B route

 .RB [ \-CFvnee ]

@@ -52,6 +54,11 @@ If]

 .RB [ \-\-version ]

 .RB [ \-h ]

 .RB [ \--help ]

+

+.SH NOTE

+.P 

+This program is obsolete. For replacement check \fBip route\fR.

+

 .SH DESCRIPTION

 .B Route

 manipulates the kernel's IP routing tables.  Its primary use is to set

@@ -306,6 +313,7 @@ address is not needed for the interface 

 .B Arp (cached only)

 Whether or not the hardware address for the cached route is up to date.

 .LP

+

 .SH FILES

 .I /proc/net/ipv6_route

 .br

@@ -313,9 +321,11 @@ Whether or not the hardware address for 

 .br

 .I /proc/net/rt_cache

 .LP

+

 .SH SEE ALSO

-.I ifconfig(8), netstat(8), arp(8), rarp(8)

+.I ip(8)

 .LP

+

 .SH HISTORY

 .B Route

 for Linux was originally written by Fred N.  van Kempen,