
			LINUX NET DISTRIBUTION

			    Version 0.05

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

		Ross Biro <bir7@leland.stanford.edu>

		  Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>


The NET distribution for LINUX is a complete set of executables,
setup files, documentation and all the sources needed to rebuild
the package.  It is intended as the `official' NET package for
the LINUX operating system, mostly to get rid of the current
situation of total chaos in NETland...

The first distribution has been done by Ross Biro, who wrote the
TCP/IP stuff in the LINUX kernel to start with.  As usual, the
Berkeley BSD UNIX software was taken as a base for this distri-
bution.  The second distribution of network programs was done by
Rick Sladkey, to at least try to keep the network stuff combined
into a single distribution.  At that point in time, massive changes
in the network kernel code took place, which asked for a new set
of network programs.  This is it...

This README is from the "net-XXX" archive, which is the "base"
of the network distribution.  It contains the minimal set of
programs and setup files to get things going.  Useful work can 
only be done by the "extra" programs and packages from the NET
directory.

One note: when porting or compiling network stuff from the BSD
UNIX distributions, make sure that you link the program with the
"-lbsd" linker option.  This includes the functions from the new
BSD compatibility library.  Also, add the text:

	"-include /usr/include/bsd/bsd.h -I/usr/include/bsd"

to the CFLAGS section in your Makefile.  This is very important.
