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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-iproute2" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="iproute2.html"?>
10
11 <title>IPRoute2-&iproute2-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2">
14 <primary sortas="a-IPRoute2">IPRoute2</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The IPRoute2 package contains programs for basic and advanced
[3373dd11]21 IPV4-based networking.</para>
[3f8be484]22
23 <segmentedlist>
24 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
25
26 <seglistitem>
[b76b419]27 <seg>Bash, Bison, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make,
28 Linux-Libc-Headers, and Sed</seg>
[3f8be484]29 </seglistitem>
30 </segmentedlist>
31
32 </sect2>
33
34 <sect2 role="installation">
35 <title>Installation of IPRoute2</title>
36
[e0e40d3]37 <para os="s1">The <command>arpd</command> binary included in this package is
[3f8be484]38 dependent on Berkeley DB. Because <command>arpd</command> is not a
39 very common requirement on a base Linux system, remove the dependency
40 on Berkeley DB by applying the <command>sed</command> command below.
41 If the <command>arpd</command> binary is needed, instructions for
42 compiling Berkeley DB can be found in the BLFS Book at <ulink
43 url="&blfs-root;view/svn/server/databases.html#db"/>.</para>
44
[e0e40d3]45<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i '/^TARGETS/s@arpd@@g' misc/Makefile</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]46
[e0e40d3]47 <para os="a">Prepare IPRoute2 for compilation:</para>
[3f8be484]48
[e0e40d3]49<screen os="b"><userinput>sh configure </userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]50
[e0e40d3]51 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
[3f8be484]52
[e0e40d3]53<screen os="d"><userinput>make SBINDIR=/sbin</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]54
[e0e40d3]55 <variablelist os="e">
[3f8be484]56 <title>The meaning of the make option:</title>
57
58 <varlistentry>
59 <term><parameter>SBINDIR=/sbin</parameter></term>
60 <listitem>
61 <para>This ensures that the IPRoute2 binaries will install into
62 <filename class="directory">/sbin</filename>. This is the correct
63 location according to the FHS, because some of the IPRoute2 binaries
64 are used by the LFS-Bootscripts package.</para>
65 </listitem>
66 </varlistentry>
67 </variablelist>
68
[e0e40d3]69 <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
[3f8be484]70
[e0e40d3]71<screen os="g"><userinput>make SBINDIR=/sbin install</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]72
73 </sect2>
74
75 <sect2 id="contents-iproute2" role="content">
76 <title>Contents of IPRoute2</title>
77
78 <segmentedlist>
79 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
80
81 <seglistitem>
82 <seg>ctstat (link to lnstat), ifcfg, ifstat, ip, lnstat, nstat,
83 routef, routel, rtacct, rtmon, rtpr, rtstat (link to lnstat), ss,
84 and tc</seg>
85 </seglistitem>
86 </segmentedlist>
87
88 <variablelist>
89 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
90 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
91 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
92
93 <varlistentry id="ctstat">
94 <term><command>ctstat</command></term>
95 <listitem>
96 <para>Connection status utility</para>
97 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ctstat">
98 <primary sortas="b-cstat">ctstat</primary>
99 </indexterm>
100 </listitem>
101 </varlistentry>
102
103 <varlistentry id="ifcfg">
104 <term><command>ifcfg</command></term>
105 <listitem>
106 <para>A shell script wrapper for the <command>ip</command>
107 command</para>
108 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ifcfg">
109 <primary sortas="b-ifcfg">ifcfg</primary>
110 </indexterm>
111 </listitem>
112 </varlistentry>
113
114 <varlistentry id="ifstat">
115 <term><command>ifstat</command></term>
116 <listitem>
117 <para>Shows the interface statistics, including the amount of
118 transmitted and received packets by interface</para>
119 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ifstat">
120 <primary sortas="b-ifstat">ifstat</primary>
121 </indexterm>
122 </listitem>
123 </varlistentry>
124
125 <varlistentry id="ip">
126 <term><command>ip</command></term>
127 <listitem>
128 <para>The main executable. It has several different functions:</para>
129
130 <para><command>ip link <replaceable>[device]</replaceable></command>
131 allows users to look at the state of devices and to make changes</para>
132
133 <para><command>ip addr</command> allows users to look at addresses and
134 their properties, add new addresses, and delete old ones</para>
135
136 <para><command>ip neighbor</command> allows users to look at neighbor
137 bindings and their properties, add new neighbor entries, and delete
138 old ones</para>
139
140 <para><command>ip rule</command> allows users to look at the routing
141 policies and change them</para>
142
143 <para><command>ip route</command> allows users to look at the routing
144 table and change routing table rules</para>
145
146 <para><command>ip tunnel</command> allows users to look at the IP
147 tunnels and their properties, and change them</para>
148
149 <para><command>ip maddr</command> allows users to look at the multicast
150 addresses and their properties, and change them</para>
151
152 <para><command>ip mroute</command> allows users to set, change, or
153 delete the multicast routing</para>
154
155 <para><command>ip monitor</command> allows users to continously monitor
156 the state of devices, addresses and routes</para>
157 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ip">
158 <primary sortas="b-ip">ip</primary>
159 </indexterm>
160 </listitem>
161 </varlistentry>
162
163 <varlistentry id="lnstat">
164 <term><command>lnstat</command></term>
165 <listitem>
166 <para>Provides Linux network statistics. It is a generalized and more
167 feature-complete replacement for the old <command>rtstat</command>
168 program</para>
169 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 lnstat">
170 <primary sortas="b-cstat">lnstat</primary>
171 </indexterm>
172 </listitem>
173 </varlistentry>
174
175 <varlistentry id="nstat">
176 <term><command>nstat</command></term>
177 <listitem>
178 <para>Shows network statistics</para>
179 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 nstat">
180 <primary sortas="b-nstat">nstat</primary>
181 </indexterm>
182 </listitem>
183 </varlistentry>
184
185 <varlistentry id="routef">
186 <term><command>routef</command></term>
187 <listitem>
188 <para>A component of <command>ip route</command>. This is for flushing
189 the routing tables</para>
190 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 routef">
191 <primary sortas="b-routef">routef</primary>
192 </indexterm>
193 </listitem>
194 </varlistentry>
195
196 <varlistentry id="routel">
197 <term><command>routel</command></term>
198 <listitem>
199 <para>A component of <command>ip route</command>. This is for listing
200 the routing tables</para>
201 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 routel">
202 <primary sortas="b-routel">routel</primary>
203 </indexterm>
204 </listitem>
205 </varlistentry>
206
207 <varlistentry id="rtacct">
208 <term><command>rtacct</command></term>
209 <listitem>
210 <para>Displays the contents of
211 <filename>/proc/net/rt_acct</filename></para>
212 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtacct">
213 <primary sortas="b-rtacct">rtacct</primary>
214 </indexterm>
215 </listitem>
216 </varlistentry>
217
218 <varlistentry id="rtmon">
219 <term><command>rtmon</command></term>
220 <listitem>
221 <para>Route monitoring utility</para>
222 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtmon">
223 <primary sortas="b-rtmon">rtmon</primary>
224 </indexterm>
225 </listitem>
226 </varlistentry>
227
228 <varlistentry id="rtpr">
229 <term><command>rtpr</command></term>
230 <listitem>
231 <para>Converts the output of <command>ip -o</command> back into a
232 readable form</para>
233 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtpr">
234 <primary sortas="b-rtpr">rtpr</primary>
235 </indexterm>
236 </listitem>
237 </varlistentry>
238
239 <varlistentry id="rtstat">
240 <term><command>rtstat</command></term>
241 <listitem>
242 <para>Route status utility</para>
243 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtstat">
244 <primary sortas="b-rtstat">rtstat</primary>
245 </indexterm>
246 </listitem>
247 </varlistentry>
248
249 <varlistentry id="ss">
250 <term><command>ss</command></term>
251 <listitem>
252 <para>Similar to the <command>netstat</command> command; shows
253 active connections</para>
254 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ss">
255 <primary sortas="b-ss">ss</primary>
256 </indexterm>
257 </listitem>
258 </varlistentry>
259
260 <varlistentry id="tc">
261 <term><command>tc</command></term>
262 <listitem>
263 <para>Traffic Controlling Executable; this is for Quality Of Service
264 (QOS) and Class Of Service (COS) implementations</para>
265
266 <para><command>tc qdisc</command> allows users to setup the queueing
267 discipline</para>
268
269 <para><command>tc class</command> allows users to setup classes based on
270 the queuing discipline scheduling</para>
271
272 <para><command>tc estimator</command> allows users to estimate the
273 network flow into a network</para>
274
275 <para><command>tc filter</command> allows users to setup the QOS/COS
276 packet filtering</para>
277
278 <para><command>tc policy</command> allows users to setup the QOS/COS
279 policies</para>
280 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ss">
281 <primary sortas="b-tc">tc</primary>
282 </indexterm>
283 </listitem>
284 </varlistentry>
285
286 </variablelist>
287
288 </sect2>
289
290</sect1>
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