Subject: Re: Adding new programs, like tcpdrop (was: CVS commit:
To: Daniel C. Sinclair <daniel.c.sinclair@gmail.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 06/27/2007 22:13:29
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:47:53 -0700
"Daniel C. Sinclair" <daniel.c.sinclair@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/26/07, Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:22:32PM +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
> > > I agree on its usefulness.  I have a use for it immediately in
> > > testing. Not that I couldn't to it otherwise, but tcpdrop surely
> > > makes it more practical.
> >
> > Seconded.  I'd like to see it in NetBSD 4.0, or 3.2 even.
> Something I'd like to see added to NetBSD is netcat (nc).  Both Open
> and Free have had it for a while.  It's one of the most useful network
> tools and is as fundamental as 'cat'.  Please, someone add it for 4.0!
> Daniel

It's in pkgsrc.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb