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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">By default, this package builds the <command>arpd</command>
29 program, which is dependent on Berkeley DB. Because <command>arpd</command>
30 is not a very common requirement on a base Linux system, remove the
31 dependency on Berkeley DB by using the commands
32 below. If the <command>arpd</command> binary is needed, instructions for
33 compiling Berkeley DB can be found in CBLFS at <ulink
34 url="&cblfs-root;index.php/Berkeley_DB"/>.</para>
35
36<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i '/^TARGETS/s@arpd@@g' misc/Makefile
37sed -i '/ARPD/d' Makefile
38rm man/man8/arpd.8</userinput></screen>
39
40 <para os="a">Compile the package:</para>
41
42<screen os="b"><userinput>make DESTDIR= DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/iproute2 \
43 MANDIR=/usr/share/man</userinput></screen>
44
45 <variablelist os="c">
46 <title>The meaning of the make option:</title>
47
48 <varlistentry>
49 <term><parameter>DESTDIR=</parameter></term>
50 <listitem>
51 <para>This option overrides the default DESTDIR of /usr, so that
52 that the IPRoute2 binaries will be installed into
53 <filename class="directory">/sbin</filename>. This is the correct
54 location according to the FHS, because some of the IPRoute2 binaries
55 are used by the CLFS-Bootscripts package.</para>
56 </listitem>
57 </varlistentry>
58
59 <varlistentry>
60 <term><parameter>DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/iproute2 MANDIR=/usr/share/man</parameter></term>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>The DESTDIR=/ parameter would cause documentation to be
63 installed into <filename class="directory">/share/doc</filename> and
64 <filename class="directory">/share/man</filename>. These options
65 ensure the docs are installed to the correct locations.</para>
66 </listitem>
67 </varlistentry>
68 </variablelist>
69
70 <para os="d">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
71
72 <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
73
74<screen os="f"><userinput>make DESTDIR= DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/iproute2 \
75 MANDIR=/usr/share/man install</userinput></screen>
76
77 </sect2>
78
79 <sect2 id="contents-iproute2" role="content">
80 <title>Contents of IPRoute2</title>
81
82 <segmentedlist>
83 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
84 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
85
86 <seglistitem>
87 <seg>ctstat (link to lnstat), genl, ifcfg, ifstat, ip, lnstat, nstat,
88 routef, routel, rtacct, rtmon, rtpr, rtstat (link to lnstat), ss,
89 and tc</seg>
90 <seg>/etc/iproute2, /lib/tc, /usr/lib/tc, /usr/share/doc/iproute2</seg>
91 </seglistitem>
92 </segmentedlist>
93
94 <variablelist>
95 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
96 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
97 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
98
99 <varlistentry id="ctstat">
100 <term><command>ctstat</command></term>
101 <listitem>
102 <para>Connection status utility</para>
103 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ctstat">
104 <primary sortas="b-ctstat">ctstat</primary>
105 </indexterm>
106 </listitem>
107 </varlistentry>
108
109 <varlistentry id="genl">
110 <term><command>genl</command></term>
111 <listitem>
112 <para>Needs description</para>
113 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 genl">
114 <primary sortas="b-genl">genl</primary>
115 </indexterm>
116 </listitem>
117 </varlistentry>
118
119 <varlistentry id="ifcfg">
120 <term><command>ifcfg</command></term>
121 <listitem>
122 <para>A shell script wrapper for the <command>ip</command>
123 command</para>
124 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ifcfg">
125 <primary sortas="b-ifcfg">ifcfg</primary>
126 </indexterm>
127 </listitem>
128 </varlistentry>
129
130 <varlistentry id="ifstat">
131 <term><command>ifstat</command></term>
132 <listitem>
133 <para>Shows the interface statistics, including the amount of
134 transmitted and received packets by interface</para>
135 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ifstat">
136 <primary sortas="b-ifstat">ifstat</primary>
137 </indexterm>
138 </listitem>
139 </varlistentry>
140
141 <varlistentry id="ip">
142 <term><command>ip</command></term>
143 <listitem>
144 <para>The main executable. It has several different functions:</para>
145
146 <para><command>ip link <replaceable>[device]</replaceable></command>
147 allows users to look at the state of devices and to make changes</para>
148
149 <para><command>ip addr</command> allows users to look at addresses and
150 their properties, add new addresses, and delete old ones</para>
151
152 <para><command>ip neighbor</command> allows users to look at neighbor
153 bindings and their properties, add new neighbor entries, and delete
154 old ones</para>
155
156 <para><command>ip rule</command> allows users to look at the routing
157 policies and change them</para>
158
159 <para><command>ip route</command> allows users to look at the routing
160 table and change routing table rules</para>
161
162 <para><command>ip tunnel</command> allows users to look at the IP
163 tunnels and their properties, and change them</para>
164
165 <para><command>ip maddr</command> allows users to look at the multicast
166 addresses and their properties, and change them</para>
167
168 <para><command>ip mroute</command> allows users to set, change, or
169 delete the multicast routing</para>
170
171 <para><command>ip monitor</command> allows users to continously monitor
172 the state of devices, addresses and routes</para>
173 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ip">
174 <primary sortas="b-ip">ip</primary>
175 </indexterm>
176 </listitem>
177 </varlistentry>
178
179 <varlistentry id="lnstat">
180 <term><command>lnstat</command></term>
181 <listitem>
182 <para>Provides Linux network statistics. It is a generalized and more
183 feature-complete replacement for the old <command>rtstat</command>
184 program</para>
185 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 lnstat">
186 <primary sortas="b-lnstat">lnstat</primary>
187 </indexterm>
188 </listitem>
189 </varlistentry>
190
191 <varlistentry id="nstat">
192 <term><command>nstat</command></term>
193 <listitem>
194 <para>Shows network statistics</para>
195 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 nstat">
196 <primary sortas="b-nstat">nstat</primary>
197 </indexterm>
198 </listitem>
199 </varlistentry>
200
201 <varlistentry id="routef">
202 <term><command>routef</command></term>
203 <listitem>
204 <para>A component of <command>ip route</command>. This is for flushing
205 the routing tables</para>
206 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 routef">
207 <primary sortas="b-routef">routef</primary>
208 </indexterm>
209 </listitem>
210 </varlistentry>
211
212 <varlistentry id="routel">
213 <term><command>routel</command></term>
214 <listitem>
215 <para>A component of <command>ip route</command>. This is for listing
216 the routing tables</para>
217 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 routel">
218 <primary sortas="b-routel">routel</primary>
219 </indexterm>
220 </listitem>
221 </varlistentry>
222
223 <varlistentry id="rtacct">
224 <term><command>rtacct</command></term>
225 <listitem>
226 <para>Displays the contents of
227 <filename>/proc/net/rt_acct</filename></para>
228 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtacct">
229 <primary sortas="b-rtacct">rtacct</primary>
230 </indexterm>
231 </listitem>
232 </varlistentry>
233
234 <varlistentry id="rtmon">
235 <term><command>rtmon</command></term>
236 <listitem>
237 <para>Route monitoring utility</para>
238 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtmon">
239 <primary sortas="b-rtmon">rtmon</primary>
240 </indexterm>
241 </listitem>
242 </varlistentry>
243
244 <varlistentry id="rtpr">
245 <term><command>rtpr</command></term>
246 <listitem>
247 <para>Converts the output of <command>ip -o</command> back into a
248 readable form</para>
249 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtpr">
250 <primary sortas="b-rtpr">rtpr</primary>
251 </indexterm>
252 </listitem>
253 </varlistentry>
254
255 <varlistentry id="rtstat">
256 <term><command>rtstat</command></term>
257 <listitem>
258 <para>Route status utility</para>
259 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtstat">
260 <primary sortas="b-rtstat">rtstat</primary>
261 </indexterm>
262 </listitem>
263 </varlistentry>
264
265 <varlistentry id="ss">
266 <term><command>ss</command></term>
267 <listitem>
268 <para>Similar to the <command>netstat</command> command; shows
269 active connections</para>
270 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ss">
271 <primary sortas="b-ss">ss</primary>
272 </indexterm>
273 </listitem>
274 </varlistentry>
275
276 <varlistentry id="tc">
277 <term><command>tc</command></term>
278 <listitem>
279 <para>Traffic Controlling Executable; this is for Quality Of Service
280 (QOS) and Class Of Service (COS) implementations</para>
281
282 <para><command>tc qdisc</command> allows users to setup the queueing
283 discipline</para>
284
285 <para><command>tc class</command> allows users to setup classes based on
286 the queuing discipline scheduling</para>
287
288 <para><command>tc estimator</command> allows users to estimate the
289 network flow into a network</para>
290
291 <para><command>tc filter</command> allows users to setup the QOS/COS
292 packet filtering</para>
293
294 <para><command>tc policy</command> allows users to setup the QOS/COS
295 policies</para>
296 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ss">
297 <primary sortas="b-tc">tc</primary>
298 </indexterm>
299 </listitem>
300 </varlistentry>
301
302 </variablelist>
303
304 </sect2>
305
306</sect1>
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