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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 <sect1info condition="script">
12 <productname>iproute2</productname>
13 <productnumber>&iproute2-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&iproute2-url;</address>
15 </sect1info>
16
17 <title>IPRoute2-&iproute2-version;</title>
18
19 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2">
20 <primary sortas="a-IPRoute2">IPRoute2</primary>
21 </indexterm>
22
23 <sect2 role="package">
24 <title/>
25
26 <para>The IPRoute2 package contains programs for basic and advanced IPV4-based
27 networking.</para>
28
29 <segmentedlist>
30 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
31 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
32
33 <seglistitem>
34 <seg>&iproute2-ch6-sbu;</seg>
35 <seg>&iproute2-ch6-du;</seg>
36 </seglistitem>
37 </segmentedlist>
38
39 </sect2>
40
41 <sect2 role="installation">
42 <title>Installation of IPRoute2</title>
43
44 <para>The <command>arpd</command> program included in this package will not
45 be built since it is dependent on Berkeley DB, which is not installed in
46 LFS. However, documentation files and a directory for
47 <command>arpd</command> will still be installed. Prevent this by running
48 the commands below. If the <command>arpd</command> binary is needed,
49 instructions for compiling Berkeley DB can be found in the BLFS Book at
50 <ulink url="&blfs-book;server/databases.html#db"/>.
51 </para>
52
53<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i /ARPD/d Makefile
54sed -i 's/arpd.8//' man/man8/Makefile
55rm -v doc/arpd.sgml</userinput></screen>
56
57 <para>It is also necessary to disable building one module that
58 requires <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/iptables.html"/>.</para>
59
60<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's/m_ipt.o//' tc/Makefile</userinput></screen>
61
62 <para>Compile the package:</para>
63
64<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
65
66 <para>This package does not have a working test suite.</para>
67<!-- currently not useful, no tests actually run
68 <para>This package comes with a test suite, but due to assumptions it makes,
69 it is not possible to reliably run these tests from within the chroot
70 environment. If you wish to run these tests after booting into your new LFS
71 system, ensure you enable <filename>/proc/config.gz</filename> support
72 in your kernel (&quot;General setup&quot; -> &quot;Enable access to
73 .config through /proc/config.gz&quot; [CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC]), then run
74 'make alltests' from the <filename class="directory">testsuite/</filename>
75 subdirectory.</para>-->
76
77 <para>Install the package:</para>
78
79<screen><userinput remap="install">make DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/iproute2-&iproute2-version; install</userinput></screen>
80
81 </sect2>
82
83 <sect2 id="contents-iproute2" role="content">
84 <title>Contents of IPRoute2</title>
85
86 <segmentedlist>
87 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
88 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
89
90 <seglistitem>
91 <seg>bridge, ctstat (link to lnstat), genl, ifcfg, ifstat, ip, lnstat,
92 nstat, routef, routel, rtacct, rtmon, rtpr, rtstat (link to lnstat), ss,
93 and tc</seg>
94 <seg>/etc/iproute2, /usr/lib/tc, and /usr/share/doc/iproute2-&iproute2-version;,
95 </seg>
96 </seglistitem>
97 </segmentedlist>
98
99 <variablelist>
100 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
101 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
102 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
103
104 <varlistentry id="bridge">
105 <term><command>bridge</command></term>
106 <listitem>
107 <para>Configures network bridges</para>
108 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 bridge">
109 <primary sortas="b-bridge">bridge</primary>
110 </indexterm>
111 </listitem>
112 </varlistentry>
113
114 <varlistentry id="ctstat">
115 <term><command>ctstat</command></term>
116 <listitem>
117 <para>Connection status utility</para>
118 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ctstat">
119 <primary sortas="b-ctstat">ctstat</primary>
120 </indexterm>
121 </listitem>
122 </varlistentry>
123
124 <varlistentry id="genl">
125 <term><command>genl</command></term>
126 <listitem>
127 <para>Generic netlink utility frontend</para>
128 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 genl">
129 <primary sortas="b-genl">genl</primary>
130 </indexterm>
131 </listitem>
132 </varlistentry>
133
134 <varlistentry id="ifcfg">
135 <term><command>ifcfg</command></term>
136 <listitem>
137 <para>A shell script wrapper for the <command>ip</command> command
138 [Note that it requires the <command>arping</command> and
139 <command>rdisk</command> programs from the
140 iputils package found at <ulink url="http://www.skbuff.net/iputils/"/>.]</para>
141 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ifcfg">
142 <primary sortas="b-ifcfg">ifcfg</primary>
143 </indexterm>
144 </listitem>
145 </varlistentry>
146
147 <varlistentry id="ifstat">
148 <term><command>ifstat</command></term>
149 <listitem>
150 <para>Shows the interface statistics, including the amount of
151 transmitted and received packets by interface</para>
152 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ifstat">
153 <primary sortas="b-ifstat">ifstat</primary>
154 </indexterm>
155 </listitem>
156 </varlistentry>
157
158 <varlistentry id="ip">
159 <term><command>ip</command></term>
160 <listitem>
161 <para>The main executable. It has several different functions:</para>
162
163 <para><command>ip link <replaceable>&lt;device&gt;</replaceable></command>
164 allows users to look at the state of devices and to make changes</para>
165
166 <para><command>ip addr</command> allows users to look at addresses and
167 their properties, add new addresses, and delete old ones</para>
168
169 <para><command>ip neighbor</command> allows users to look at neighbor
170 bindings and their properties, add new neighbor entries, and delete
171 old ones</para>
172
173 <para><command>ip rule</command> allows users to look at the routing
174 policies and change them</para>
175
176 <para><command>ip route</command> allows users to look at the routing
177 table and change routing table rules</para>
178
179 <para><command>ip tunnel</command> allows users to look at the IP
180 tunnels and their properties, and change them</para>
181
182 <para><command>ip maddr</command> allows users to look at the multicast
183 addresses and their properties, and change them</para>
184
185 <para><command>ip mroute</command> allows users to set, change, or
186 delete the multicast routing</para>
187
188 <para><command>ip monitor</command> allows users to continuously monitor
189 the state of devices, addresses and routes</para>
190 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ip">
191 <primary sortas="b-ip">ip</primary>
192 </indexterm>
193 </listitem>
194 </varlistentry>
195
196 <varlistentry id="lnstat">
197 <term><command>lnstat</command></term>
198 <listitem>
199 <para>Provides Linux network statistics; it is a generalized and more
200 feature-complete replacement for the old <command>rtstat</command>
201 program</para>
202 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 lnstat">
203 <primary sortas="b-lnstat">lnstat</primary>
204 </indexterm>
205 </listitem>
206 </varlistentry>
207
208 <varlistentry id="nstat">
209 <term><command>nstat</command></term>
210 <listitem>
211 <para>Shows network statistics</para>
212 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 nstat">
213 <primary sortas="b-nstat">nstat</primary>
214 </indexterm>
215 </listitem>
216 </varlistentry>
217
218 <varlistentry id="routef">
219 <term><command>routef</command></term>
220 <listitem>
221 <para>A component of <command>ip route</command>. This is for flushing
222 the routing tables</para>
223 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 routef">
224 <primary sortas="b-routef">routef</primary>
225 </indexterm>
226 </listitem>
227 </varlistentry>
228
229 <varlistentry id="routel">
230 <term><command>routel</command></term>
231 <listitem>
232 <para>A component of <command>ip route</command>. This is for listing
233 the routing tables</para>
234 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 routel">
235 <primary sortas="b-routel">routel</primary>
236 </indexterm>
237 </listitem>
238 </varlistentry>
239
240 <varlistentry id="rtacct">
241 <term><command>rtacct</command></term>
242 <listitem>
243 <para>Displays the contents of
244 <filename>/proc/net/rt_acct</filename></para>
245 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtacct">
246 <primary sortas="b-rtacct">rtacct</primary>
247 </indexterm>
248 </listitem>
249 </varlistentry>
250
251 <varlistentry id="rtmon">
252 <term><command>rtmon</command></term>
253 <listitem>
254 <para>Route monitoring utility</para>
255 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtmon">
256 <primary sortas="b-rtmon">rtmon</primary>
257 </indexterm>
258 </listitem>
259 </varlistentry>
260
261 <varlistentry id="rtpr">
262 <term><command>rtpr</command></term>
263 <listitem>
264 <para>Converts the output of <command>ip -o</command> back into a
265 readable form</para>
266 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtpr">
267 <primary sortas="b-rtpr">rtpr</primary>
268 </indexterm>
269 </listitem>
270 </varlistentry>
271
272 <varlistentry id="rtstat">
273 <term><command>rtstat</command></term>
274 <listitem>
275 <para>Route status utility</para>
276 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtstat">
277 <primary sortas="b-rtstat">rtstat</primary>
278 </indexterm>
279 </listitem>
280 </varlistentry>
281
282 <varlistentry id="ss">
283 <term><command>ss</command></term>
284 <listitem>
285 <para>Similar to the <command>netstat</command> command; shows active
286 connections</para>
287 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ss">
288 <primary sortas="b-ss">ss</primary>
289 </indexterm>
290 </listitem>
291 </varlistentry>
292
293 <varlistentry id="tc">
294 <term><command>tc</command></term>
295 <listitem>
296 <para>Traffic Controlling Executable; this is for Quality Of Service
297 (QOS) and Class Of Service (COS) implementations</para>
298
299 <para><command>tc qdisc</command> allows users to setup the queueing
300 discipline</para>
301
302 <para><command>tc class</command> allows users to setup classes based
303 on the queuing discipline scheduling</para>
304
305 <para><command>tc estimator</command> allows users to estimate the
306 network flow into a network</para>
307
308 <para><command>tc filter</command> allows users to setup the QOS/COS
309 packet filtering</para>
310
311 <para><command>tc policy</command> allows users to setup the QOS/COS
312 policies</para>
313 <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ss">
314 <primary sortas="b-tc">tc</primary>
315 </indexterm>
316 </listitem>
317 </varlistentry>
318
319 </variablelist>
320
321 </sect2>
322
323</sect1>
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