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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
- "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
- <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
- %general-entities;
-]>
-
-<sect1 id="ch-system-iproute2" role="wrap">
- <?dbhtml filename="iproute2.html"?>
-
- <sect1info condition="script">
- <productname>iproute2</productname>
- <productnumber>&iproute2-version;</productnumber>
- <address>&iproute2-url;</address>
- </sect1info>
-
- <title>IPRoute2-&iproute2-version;</title>
-
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2">
- <primary sortas="a-IPRoute2">IPRoute2</primary>
- </indexterm>
-
- <sect2 role="package">
- <title/>
-
- <para>The IPRoute2 package contains programs for basic and advanced IPV4-based
- networking.</para>
-
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
- <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
-
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>&iproute2-ch6-sbu;</seg>
- <seg>&iproute2-ch6-du;</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 role="installation">
- <title>Installation of IPRoute2</title>
-
- <para>The <command>arpd</command> program included in this package will not
- be built since it is dependent on Berkeley DB, which is not installed in
- LFS. However, a directory for <command>arpd</command> and a man page will still
- be installed. Prevent this by running the commands below.
- If the <command>arpd</command> binary is needed,
- instructions for compiling Berkeley DB can be found in the BLFS Book at
- <ulink url="&blfs-book;server/databases.html#db"/>.
- </para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i /ARPD/d Makefile
-rm -fv man/man8/arpd.8</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>It is also necessary to disable building two modules that
- requires <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/iptables.html"/>.</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's/.m_ipt.o//' tc/Makefile</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Compile the package:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>This package does not have a working test suite.</para>
-<!-- currently not useful, no tests actually run
- <para>This package comes with a test suite, but due to assumptions it makes,
- it is not possible to reliably run these tests from within the chroot
- environment. If you wish to run these tests after booting into your new LFS
- system, ensure you enable <filename>/proc/config.gz</filename> support
- in your kernel (&quot;General setup&quot; -> &quot;Enable access to
- .config through /proc/config.gz&quot; [CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC]), then run
- 'make alltests' from the <filename class="directory">testsuite/</filename>
- subdirectory.</para>-->
-
- <para>Install the package:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/iproute2-&iproute2-version; install</userinput></screen>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="contents-iproute2" role="content">
- <title>Contents of IPRoute2</title>
-
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
-
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>bridge, ctstat (link to lnstat), genl, ifcfg, ifstat, ip, lnstat,
- nstat, routef, routel, rtacct, rtmon, rtpr, rtstat (link to lnstat), ss,
- and tc</seg>
- <seg>/etc/iproute2, /usr/lib/tc, and /usr/share/doc/iproute2-&iproute2-version;,
- </seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
-
- <variablelist>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
- <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
- <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
-
- <varlistentry id="bridge">
- <term><command>bridge</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Configures network bridges</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 bridge">
- <primary sortas="b-bridge">bridge</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="ctstat">
- <term><command>ctstat</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Connection status utility</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ctstat">
- <primary sortas="b-ctstat">ctstat</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="genl">
- <term><command>genl</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Generic netlink utility frontend</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 genl">
- <primary sortas="b-genl">genl</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="ifcfg">
- <term><command>ifcfg</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A shell script wrapper for the <command>ip</command> command
- [Note that it requires the <command>arping</command> and
- <command>rdisk</command> programs from the
- iputils package found at <ulink url="http://www.skbuff.net/iputils/"/>.]</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ifcfg">
- <primary sortas="b-ifcfg">ifcfg</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="ifstat">
- <term><command>ifstat</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Shows the interface statistics, including the amount of
- transmitted and received packets by interface</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ifstat">
- <primary sortas="b-ifstat">ifstat</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="ip">
- <term><command>ip</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The main executable. It has several different functions:</para>
-
- <para><command>ip link <replaceable>&lt;device&gt;</replaceable></command>
- allows users to look at the state of devices and to make changes</para>
-
- <para><command>ip addr</command> allows users to look at addresses and
- their properties, add new addresses, and delete old ones</para>
-
- <para><command>ip neighbor</command> allows users to look at neighbor
- bindings and their properties, add new neighbor entries, and delete
- old ones</para>
-
- <para><command>ip rule</command> allows users to look at the routing
- policies and change them</para>
-
- <para><command>ip route</command> allows users to look at the routing
- table and change routing table rules</para>
-
- <para><command>ip tunnel</command> allows users to look at the IP
- tunnels and their properties, and change them</para>
-
- <para><command>ip maddr</command> allows users to look at the multicast
- addresses and their properties, and change them</para>
-
- <para><command>ip mroute</command> allows users to set, change, or
- delete the multicast routing</para>
-
- <para><command>ip monitor</command> allows users to continuously monitor
- the state of devices, addresses and routes</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ip">
- <primary sortas="b-ip">ip</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="lnstat">
- <term><command>lnstat</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Provides Linux network statistics; it is a generalized and more
- feature-complete replacement for the old <command>rtstat</command>
- program</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 lnstat">
- <primary sortas="b-lnstat">lnstat</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="nstat">
- <term><command>nstat</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Shows network statistics</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 nstat">
- <primary sortas="b-nstat">nstat</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="routef">
- <term><command>routef</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A component of <command>ip route</command>. This is for flushing
- the routing tables</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 routef">
- <primary sortas="b-routef">routef</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="routel">
- <term><command>routel</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A component of <command>ip route</command>. This is for listing
- the routing tables</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 routel">
- <primary sortas="b-routel">routel</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="rtacct">
- <term><command>rtacct</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Displays the contents of
- <filename>/proc/net/rt_acct</filename></para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtacct">
- <primary sortas="b-rtacct">rtacct</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="rtmon">
- <term><command>rtmon</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Route monitoring utility</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtmon">
- <primary sortas="b-rtmon">rtmon</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="rtpr">
- <term><command>rtpr</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Converts the output of <command>ip -o</command> back into a
- readable form</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtpr">
- <primary sortas="b-rtpr">rtpr</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="rtstat">
- <term><command>rtstat</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Route status utility</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 rtstat">
- <primary sortas="b-rtstat">rtstat</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="ss">
- <term><command>ss</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Similar to the <command>netstat</command> command; shows active
- connections</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ss">
- <primary sortas="b-ss">ss</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="tc">
- <term><command>tc</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Traffic Controlling Executable; this is for Quality Of Service
- (QOS) and Class Of Service (COS) implementations</para>
-
- <para><command>tc qdisc</command> allows users to setup the queueing
- discipline</para>
-
- <para><command>tc class</command> allows users to setup classes based
- on the queuing discipline scheduling</para>
-
- <para><command>tc estimator</command> allows users to estimate the
- network flow into a network</para>
-
- <para><command>tc filter</command> allows users to setup the QOS/COS
- packet filtering</para>
-
- <para><command>tc policy</command> allows users to setup the QOS/COS
- policies</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 ss">
- <primary sortas="b-tc">tc</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- </sect2>
-
-</sect1>