Re: new modules consensus

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Maw, 2004-08-17 at 17:26, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> 	To me, it sounds like these are "just bugs" that won't affect most
> users too badly rather than blocking issues with the design or quality
> of the program. If these are relatively minor issues that could easily
> be fixed during stable releases, then I don't think there's a big
> problem here. Maybe I'm mis-understanding the importance of the issues,
> but its hard to judge without bug reports.

On Linux at the moment
	= the portscan crashes on use (and doesn't work in other cases)
	  also can't do UDP
	= it misparses interface data (ifconfig format varies by distro
	  so that may be part of the fun)
	= it doesn't begin to comprehend routing tables post 1994 world

type of stuff. Some discussion just started on the gnome-nettools list.
I'd love to see it fixed and in 2.8 if doable