Hi Dave,

please apply this patch which gives users a pointer where
to find the ss tool and adds an explanation about TCPDIAG
and IPV6.

Regards
Patrick

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

Sami Farin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:15:14PM +0100, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> 
>>Thanks Patrick!
>>
>>Maybe we could add a line to the help so people, like me, that were
>>not aware that ss exists.
>>AFAICS ss appeared not so long ago, I think many distributions are
>>still using versions that do not have ss.
>>Or I may be wrong.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Maciej
>>diff -ru linux.orig/net/ipv4/Kconfig linux/net/ipv4/Kconfig
>>--- linux.orig/net/ipv4/Kconfig	2004-12-22 12:58:03.000000000 +0100
>>+++ linux/net/ipv4/Kconfig	2004-12-22 13:00:36.000000000 +0100
>>@@ -355,7 +355,8 @@
>>	default y
>>	---help---
>>	  Support for TCP socket monitoring interface used by native Linux
>>-	  tools such as ss.
>>+	  tools such as ss. ss comes from iproute2.
>>+	  http://developer.osdl.org/dev/iproute2/
> 
> 
> Add also "if you wish to view IPv6 addresses (Local/Peer Address) with ss,
> IPv6 support must be built into the kernel (not as a module)."
> 
> 
>>	  If unsure, say Y.
> 
>