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r981@server (orig r979): jim | 2005-12-30 10:11:32 -0800

r1226@server: cstaub | 2005-12-30 08:35:37 -0800
Updated package deps, removed explanation of cross-compiling from final-system binutils, and removed note about GRUB's testsuite failure


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