Re: what/where is ss tool ?

["Maciej Soltysiak" <solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv>]

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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/
 	  
 	  If unsure, say Y.
 

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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/
 	  
 	  If unsure, say Y.