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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
38sed -i 's/arpd.8//' man/man8/Makefile</userinput></screen>
39
40 <para os="f1">Remove unused libnl headers:</para>
41
42 <screen os="f2"><userinput>sed -i '/netlink\//d' ip/ipl2tp.c</userinput></screen>
43
44 <para os="a">Compile the package:</para>
45
46<screen os="b"><userinput>make DESTDIR= MANDIR=/usr/share/man</userinput></screen>
47
48 <variablelist os="c">
49 <title>The meaning of the make option:</title>
50
51 <varlistentry>
52 <term><parameter>DESTDIR=</parameter></term>
53 <listitem>
54 <para>This option overrides the default DESTDIR of /usr, so that
55 that the IPRoute2 binaries will be installed into
56 <filename class="directory">/sbin</filename>. This is the correct
57 location according to the FHS, because some of the IPRoute2 binaries
58 are used by the CLFS-Bootscripts package.</para>
59 </listitem>
60 </varlistentry>
61
62 <para os="d">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
63
64 <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
65
66<screen os="f"><userinput>make DESTDIR= DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/iproute2-&iproute2-version; \
67 MANDIR=/usr/share/man install</userinput></screen>
68
69 </sect2>
70
71 <sect2 id="contents-iproute2" role="content">
72 <title>Contents of IPRoute2</title>
73
74 <segmentedlist>
75 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
76 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
77
78 <seglistitem>
79 <seg>bridge, ctstat (link to lnstat), genl, ifcfg, ifstat, ip, lnstat,
80 nstat, routef, routel, rtacct, rtmon, rtpr, rtstat (link to lnstat), ss,
81 and tc</seg>
82 <seg>/etc/iproute2, /usr/lib/tc,
83 /usr/share/doc/iproute2-&iproute2-version;</seg>
84 </seglistitem>
85 </segmentedlist>
86
87 <variablelist>
88 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
89 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
90 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
91
92 <varlistentry id="bridge">
93 <term><command>bridge</command></term>
94 <listitem>
95 <para>Configures network bridges</para>
96 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 bridge">
97 <primary sortas="b-bridge">bridge</primary>
98 </indexterm>
99 </listitem>
100 </varlistentry>
101
102 <varlistentry id="ctstat">
103 <term><command>ctstat</command></term>
104 <listitem>
105 <para>Connection status utility</para>
106 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ctstat">
107 <primary sortas="b-ctstat">ctstat</primary>
108 </indexterm>
109 </listitem>
110 </varlistentry>
111
112 <varlistentry id="genl">
113 <term><command>genl</command></term>
114 <listitem>
115 <para>Needs description</para>
116 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 genl">
117 <primary sortas="b-genl">genl</primary>
118 </indexterm>
119 </listitem>
120 </varlistentry>
121
122 <varlistentry id="ifcfg">
123 <term><command>ifcfg</command></term>
124 <listitem>
125 <para>A shell script wrapper for the <command>ip</command>
126 command</para>
127 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ifcfg">
128 <primary sortas="b-ifcfg">ifcfg</primary>
129 </indexterm>
130 </listitem>
131 </varlistentry>
132
133 <varlistentry id="ifstat">
134 <term><command>ifstat</command></term>
135 <listitem>
136 <para>Shows the interface statistics, including the amount of
137 transmitted and received packets by interface</para>
138 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ifstat">
139 <primary sortas="b-ifstat">ifstat</primary>
140 </indexterm>
141 </listitem>
142 </varlistentry>
143
144 <varlistentry id="ip">
145 <term><command>ip</command></term>
146 <listitem>
147 <para>The main executable. It has several different functions:</para>
148
149 <para><command>ip link <replaceable>[device]</replaceable></command>
150 allows users to look at the state of devices and to make changes</para>
151
152 <para><command>ip addr</command> allows users to look at addresses and
153 their properties, add new addresses, and delete old ones</para>
154
155 <para><command>ip neighbor</command> allows users to look at neighbor
156 bindings and their properties, add new neighbor entries, and delete
157 old ones</para>
158
159 <para><command>ip rule</command> allows users to look at the routing
160 policies and change them</para>
161
162 <para><command>ip route</command> allows users to look at the routing
163 table and change routing table rules</para>
164
165 <para><command>ip tunnel</command> allows users to look at the IP
166 tunnels and their properties, and change them</para>
167
168 <para><command>ip maddr</command> allows users to look at the multicast
169 addresses and their properties, and change them</para>
170
171 <para><command>ip mroute</command> allows users to set, change, or
172 delete the multicast routing</para>
173
174 <para><command>ip monitor</command> allows users to continuously monitor
175 the state of devices, addresses and routes</para>
176 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ip">
177 <primary sortas="b-ip">ip</primary>
178 </indexterm>
179 </listitem>
180 </varlistentry>
181
182 <varlistentry id="lnstat">
183 <term><command>lnstat</command></term>
184 <listitem>
185 <para>Provides Linux network statistics. It is a generalized and more
186 feature-complete replacement for the old <command>rtstat</command>
187 program</para>
188 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 lnstat">
189 <primary sortas="b-lnstat">lnstat</primary>
190 </indexterm>
191 </listitem>
192 </varlistentry>
193
194 <varlistentry id="nstat">
195 <term><command>nstat</command></term>
196 <listitem>
197 <para>Shows network statistics</para>
198 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 nstat">
199 <primary sortas="b-nstat">nstat</primary>
200 </indexterm>
201 </listitem>
202 </varlistentry>
203
204 <varlistentry id="routef">
205 <term><command>routef</command></term>
206 <listitem>
207 <para>A component of <command>ip route</command>. This is for flushing
208 the routing tables</para>
209 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 routef">
210 <primary sortas="b-routef">routef</primary>
211 </indexterm>
212 </listitem>
213 </varlistentry>
214
215 <varlistentry id="routel">
216 <term><command>routel</command></term>
217 <listitem>
218 <para>A component of <command>ip route</command>. This is for listing
219 the routing tables</para>
220 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 routel">
221 <primary sortas="b-routel">routel</primary>
222 </indexterm>
223 </listitem>
224 </varlistentry>
225
226 <varlistentry id="rtacct">
227 <term><command>rtacct</command></term>
228 <listitem>
229 <para>Displays the contents of
230 <filename>/proc/net/rt_acct</filename></para>
231 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtacct">
232 <primary sortas="b-rtacct">rtacct</primary>
233 </indexterm>
234 </listitem>
235 </varlistentry>
236
237 <varlistentry id="rtmon">
238 <term><command>rtmon</command></term>
239 <listitem>
240 <para>Route monitoring utility</para>
241 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtmon">
242 <primary sortas="b-rtmon">rtmon</primary>
243 </indexterm>
244 </listitem>
245 </varlistentry>
246
247 <varlistentry id="rtpr">
248 <term><command>rtpr</command></term>
249 <listitem>
250 <para>Converts the output of <command>ip -o</command> back into a
251 readable form</para>
252 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtpr">
253 <primary sortas="b-rtpr">rtpr</primary>
254 </indexterm>
255 </listitem>
256 </varlistentry>
257
258 <varlistentry id="rtstat">
259 <term><command>rtstat</command></term>
260 <listitem>
261 <para>Route status utility</para>
262 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtstat">
263 <primary sortas="b-rtstat">rtstat</primary>
264 </indexterm>
265 </listitem>
266 </varlistentry>
267
268 <varlistentry id="ss">
269 <term><command>ss</command></term>
270 <listitem>
271 <para>Similar to the <command>netstat</command> command; shows
272 active connections</para>
273 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ss">
274 <primary sortas="b-ss">ss</primary>
275 </indexterm>
276 </listitem>
277 </varlistentry>
278
279 <varlistentry id="tc">
280 <term><command>tc</command></term>
281 <listitem>
282 <para>Traffic Controlling Executable; this is for Quality Of Service
283 (QOS) and Class Of Service (COS) implementations</para>
284
285 <para><command>tc qdisc</command> allows users to setup the queueing
286 discipline</para>
287
288 <para><command>tc class</command> allows users to setup classes based on
289 the queuing discipline scheduling</para>
290
291 <para><command>tc estimator</command> allows users to estimate the
292 network flow into a network</para>
293
294 <para><command>tc filter</command> allows users to setup the QOS/COS
295 packet filtering</para>
296
297 <para><command>tc policy</command> allows users to setup the QOS/COS
298 policies</para>
299 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ss">
300 <primary sortas="b-tc">tc</primary>
301 </indexterm>
302 </listitem>
303 </varlistentry>
304
305 </variablelist>
306
307 </sect2>
308
309</sect1>
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