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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/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
21 IPV4-based networking.</para>
22
23 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of IPRoute2</title>
27
28 <para os="s1">ARPD will not be installed as Berkeley DB is not installed.
29 Remove any <command>arpd</command> references during install.</para>
30
31<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i '/ARPD/d' Makefile
32sed -i 's/arpd.8//' man/man8/Makefile
33sed -i '/tc-simple/s@tc-skbmod.8 @@' man/man8/Makefile
34rm -v doc/arpd.sgml</userinput></screen>
35
36 <para os="a">Compile the package:</para>
37
38<screen os="b"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
39
40 <para os="c">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
41
42 <para os="d">Install the package:</para>
43
44<screen os="e"><userinput>make DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/iproute2-&iproute2-version; install</userinput></screen>
45
46 </sect2>
47
48 <sect2 id="contents-iproute2" role="content">
49 <title>Contents of IPRoute2</title>
50
51 <segmentedlist>
52 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
53 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
54
55 <seglistitem>
56 <seg>bridge, ctstat (link to lnstat), genl, ifcfg, ifstat, ip, lnstat,
57 nstat, routef, routel, rtacct, rtmon, rtpr, rtstat (link to lnstat), ss,
58 tc</seg>
59 <seg>/etc/iproute2, /usr/lib/tc,
60 /usr/share/doc/iproute2-&iproute2-version;</seg>
61 </seglistitem>
62 </segmentedlist>
63
64 <variablelist>
65 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
66 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
67 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
68
69 <varlistentry id="bridge">
70 <term><command>bridge</command></term>
71 <listitem>
72 <para>Configures network bridges</para>
73 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 bridge">
74 <primary sortas="b-bridge">bridge</primary>
75 </indexterm>
76 </listitem>
77 </varlistentry>
78
79 <varlistentry id="ctstat">
80 <term><command>ctstat</command></term>
81 <listitem>
82 <para>Connection status utility</para>
83 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ctstat">
84 <primary sortas="b-ctstat">ctstat</primary>
85 </indexterm>
86 </listitem>
87 </varlistentry>
88
89 <varlistentry id="genl">
90 <term><command>genl</command></term>
91 <listitem>
92 <para>Needs description</para>
93 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 genl">
94 <primary sortas="b-genl">genl</primary>
95 </indexterm>
96 </listitem>
97 </varlistentry>
98
99 <varlistentry id="ifcfg">
100 <term><command>ifcfg</command></term>
101 <listitem>
102 <para>A shell script wrapper for the <command>ip</command>
103 command</para>
104 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ifcfg">
105 <primary sortas="b-ifcfg">ifcfg</primary>
106 </indexterm>
107 </listitem>
108 </varlistentry>
109
110 <varlistentry id="ifstat">
111 <term><command>ifstat</command></term>
112 <listitem>
113 <para>Shows the interface statistics, including the amount of
114 transmitted and received packets by interface</para>
115 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ifstat">
116 <primary sortas="b-ifstat">ifstat</primary>
117 </indexterm>
118 </listitem>
119 </varlistentry>
120
121 <varlistentry id="ip">
122 <term><command>ip</command></term>
123 <listitem>
124 <para>The main executable. It has several different functions:</para>
125
126 <para><command>ip link <replaceable>[device]</replaceable></command>
127 allows users to look at the state of devices and to make changes</para>
128
129 <para><command>ip addr</command> allows users to look at addresses and
130 their properties, add new addresses, and delete old ones</para>
131
132 <para><command>ip neighbor</command> allows users to look at neighbor
133 bindings and their properties, add new neighbor entries, and delete
134 old ones</para>
135
136 <para><command>ip rule</command> allows users to look at the routing
137 policies and change them</para>
138
139 <para><command>ip route</command> allows users to look at the routing
140 table and change routing table rules</para>
141
142 <para><command>ip tunnel</command> allows users to look at the IP
143 tunnels and their properties, and change them</para>
144
145 <para><command>ip maddr</command> allows users to look at the multicast
146 addresses and their properties, and change them</para>
147
148 <para><command>ip mroute</command> allows users to set, change, or
149 delete the multicast routing</para>
150
151 <para><command>ip monitor</command> allows users to continuously monitor
152 the state of devices, addresses and routes</para>
153 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ip">
154 <primary sortas="b-ip">ip</primary>
155 </indexterm>
156 </listitem>
157 </varlistentry>
158
159 <varlistentry id="lnstat">
160 <term><command>lnstat</command></term>
161 <listitem>
162 <para>Provides Linux network statistics. It is a generalized and more
163 feature-complete replacement for the old <command>rtstat</command>
164 program</para>
165 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 lnstat">
166 <primary sortas="b-lnstat">lnstat</primary>
167 </indexterm>
168 </listitem>
169 </varlistentry>
170
171 <varlistentry id="nstat">
172 <term><command>nstat</command></term>
173 <listitem>
174 <para>Shows network statistics</para>
175 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 nstat">
176 <primary sortas="b-nstat">nstat</primary>
177 </indexterm>
178 </listitem>
179 </varlistentry>
180
181 <varlistentry id="routef">
182 <term><command>routef</command></term>
183 <listitem>
184 <para>A component of <command>ip route</command>. This is for flushing
185 the routing tables</para>
186 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 routef">
187 <primary sortas="b-routef">routef</primary>
188 </indexterm>
189 </listitem>
190 </varlistentry>
191
192 <varlistentry id="routel">
193 <term><command>routel</command></term>
194 <listitem>
195 <para>A component of <command>ip route</command>. This is for listing
196 the routing tables</para>
197 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 routel">
198 <primary sortas="b-routel">routel</primary>
199 </indexterm>
200 </listitem>
201 </varlistentry>
202
203 <varlistentry id="rtacct">
204 <term><command>rtacct</command></term>
205 <listitem>
206 <para>Displays the contents of
207 <filename>/proc/net/rt_acct</filename></para>
208 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtacct">
209 <primary sortas="b-rtacct">rtacct</primary>
210 </indexterm>
211 </listitem>
212 </varlistentry>
213
214 <varlistentry id="rtmon">
215 <term><command>rtmon</command></term>
216 <listitem>
217 <para>Route monitoring utility</para>
218 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtmon">
219 <primary sortas="b-rtmon">rtmon</primary>
220 </indexterm>
221 </listitem>
222 </varlistentry>
223
224 <varlistentry id="rtpr">
225 <term><command>rtpr</command></term>
226 <listitem>
227 <para>Converts the output of <command>ip -o</command> back into a
228 readable form</para>
229 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtpr">
230 <primary sortas="b-rtpr">rtpr</primary>
231 </indexterm>
232 </listitem>
233 </varlistentry>
234
235 <varlistentry id="rtstat">
236 <term><command>rtstat</command></term>
237 <listitem>
238 <para>Route status utility</para>
239 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtstat">
240 <primary sortas="b-rtstat">rtstat</primary>
241 </indexterm>
242 </listitem>
243 </varlistentry>
244
245 <varlistentry id="ss">
246 <term><command>ss</command></term>
247 <listitem>
248 <para>Similar to the <command>netstat</command> command; shows
249 active connections</para>
250 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ss">
251 <primary sortas="b-ss">ss</primary>
252 </indexterm>
253 </listitem>
254 </varlistentry>
255
256 <varlistentry id="tc">
257 <term><command>tc</command></term>
258 <listitem>
259 <para>Traffic Controlling Executable; this is for Quality Of Service
260 (QOS) and Class Of Service (COS) implementations</para>
261
262 <para><command>tc qdisc</command> allows users to setup the queueing
263 discipline</para>
264
265 <para><command>tc class</command> allows users to setup classes based on
266 the queuing discipline scheduling</para>
267
268 <para><command>tc estimator</command> allows users to estimate the
269 network flow into a network</para>
270
271 <para><command>tc filter</command> allows users to setup the QOS/COS
272 packet filtering</para>
273
274 <para><command>tc policy</command> allows users to setup the QOS/COS
275 policies</para>
276 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ss">
277 <primary sortas="b-tc">tc</primary>
278 </indexterm>
279 </listitem>
280 </varlistentry>
281
282 </variablelist>
283
284 </sect2>
285
286</sect1>
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