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