A.25. Inetutils

A.25.1.

A.25.2. Official Download Location

Inetutils (1.4.2):
http://freshmeat.net/projects/inetutils/

A.25.3. Contents of Inetutils

The Inetutils package contains network clients and servers.

Installed programs: ftp, ping, rcp, rlogin, rsh, talk, telnet and tftp

A.25.4.

A.25.5. Short descriptions

ftp is the ARPANET file transfer program.

ping sends echo-request packets and reports how long the replies take.

rcp does remote file copy.

rlogin does remote login.

rsh runs a remote shell.

talk is used to chat up another user.

telnet is an interface to the TELNET protocol.

tftp is a trivial file transfer program.

A.25.6.

A.25.7. Inetutils Installation Dependencies

Inetutils depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed.