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11th June 2004 fake-1.1.10:
Documentation fixes.
See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
8th June 2004 fake-1.1.9:
Send gratuitous ARP replies as well as requests. Also try to send gratuitous ARPs in accordance with RFC 2002.
See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
21st October 2002 fake-1.1.8:
Unset LANG environment variable so that ifconfig output is as expected. Added heartbeat resource script. Allow source and destination mac address to be specified.
See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
19th February 2001 fake-1.1.6:
Cleaned up handling of Locale. Created Debian Packages.
See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
22nd November 1999 fake-1.1.5:
Minor documentation changes.
See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
14th November 1999 fake-1.1.4:
Setting locale to other than English no longer causes mac address determination to fail.
See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
22nd September 1999 fake-1.1.3:
Now uses SIGUSR1 to send other fake instances signals to exit rather than shuting down cleanly which can cause a race condition resulting in two instances of fake for the same address killing each other instead of leaving one running.
See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
15th May 1999 fake-1.1.2:
Fake now exits gracefully and cleans up on SIGTERM and SIGHUP.
See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
12th February 1999 fake-1.1.1:
Now bash 2.0 compliant. Like it should be.
See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
6th January 1999 fake-1.1.0:
Allows the maccaddress of the faked machine to be advertised when fake is turned off.
See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
30th November 1998 fake-1.0.2:
Broadcast address field in the configuration file. I'm not sure how I managed to leave this out.
See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
4th November 1998 fake-1.0.1:
Tolerant of trailing characters when reading the output of ifconfig to find the hardware address of an interface.
See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
29th October 1998 Fake-1.0.0:
First Public release.

Also see ChangeLog
11th June 2004	fake-1.1.10: Documentation fixes. See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
8th June 2004	fake-1.1.9: Send gratuitous ARP replies as well as requests. Also try to send gratuitous ARPs in accordance with RFC 2002. See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
21st October 2002	fake-1.1.8: Unset LANG environment variable so that ifconfig output is as expected. Added heartbeat resource script. Allow source and destination mac address to be specified. See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
19th February 2001	fake-1.1.6: Cleaned up handling of Locale. Created Debian Packages. See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
22nd November 1999	fake-1.1.5: Minor documentation changes. See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
14th November 1999	fake-1.1.4: Setting locale to other than English no longer causes mac address determination to fail. See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
22nd September 1999	fake-1.1.3: Now uses SIGUSR1 to send other fake instances signals to exit rather than shuting down cleanly which can cause a race condition resulting in two instances of fake for the same address killing each other instead of leaving one running. See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
15th May 1999	fake-1.1.2: Fake now exits gracefully and cleans up on SIGTERM and SIGHUP. See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
12th February 1999	fake-1.1.1: Now bash 2.0 compliant. Like it should be. See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
6th January 1999	fake-1.1.0: Allows the maccaddress of the faked machine to be advertised when fake is turned off. See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
30th November 1998	fake-1.0.2: Broadcast address field in the configuration file. I'm not sure how I managed to leave this out. See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
4th November 1998	fake-1.0.1: Tolerant of trailing characters when reading the output of ifconfig to find the hardware address of an interface. See the Change Log for a full list of changes.
29th October 1998	Fake-1.0.0: First Public release.