Bug 1496156

Summary:	Remove dependency on net-tools
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	James Hogarth <james.hogarth>
Component:	systemtap	Assignee:	Jafeer Uddin <juddin>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	28	CC:	brolley, dsmith, fche, jistone, juddin, lberk, mjw, scox, wcohen
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Description James Hogarth 2017-09-26 14:52:31 UTC

On linux the net-tools suite of utilities has been long since deprecated.

The relevant code that gets executed on Fedora and EPEL should be identified and patched out, with a suitable pull request upstream, to remove the dependency on any tool in the net-tools package and instead use suitable tools form iproute2.

Comment 1 Frank Ch. Eigler 2017-09-26 15:21:29 UTC

We use 'netstat -tn' to enumerate current connections, so as to help identify some likely-unused tcp port numbers.  What's the new world order method to do that?

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2018-02-20 15:30:21 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 28 development cycle.
Changing version to '28'.

Comment 3 Mark Wielaard 2018-04-20 13:52:08 UTC

iproute2 contains ss, which seems to act almost exactly like netstat.
So the usage of netstat -atn | awk '{print $4}' can probably simply be replaced by ss -atn | awk '{print $4}'

Comment 4 Jafeer Uddin 2018-05-30 13:09:45 UTC

commit 436ddc6f40596fd81ae9fc8c4ed6139b656b895b removes dependency on net-tools