lfs-book/chapter06/iproute2.xml

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<sect1 id="ch-system-iproute2" role="wrap">
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  <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 installation of two manual pages is broken and results in
    dangling symlinks. Fix this with the following command:</para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i -e '/tc-bfifo.8/d' -e '/tc-pfifo.8/s/pbfifo/bfifo/' Makefile</userinput></screen>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make SBINDIR=/sbin</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the make option:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>SBINDIR=/sbin</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This ensures that the IPRoute2 binaries will install into
          <filename class="directory">/sbin</filename>. This is the correct
          location according to the FHS, because some of the IPRoute2 binaries
          are used by the LFS-Bootscripts package.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make SBINDIR=/sbin install</userinput></screen>

    <para>The <command>arpd</command> binary links against the Berkeley DB
    libraries that reside in <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> and
    uses a database in <filename>/var/lib/arpd/arpd.db</filename>. Thus,
    according to the FHS, it must be in <filename
    class="directory">/usr/sbin</filename>. Move it there:</para>

    <screen><userinput>mv -v /sbin/arpd /usr/sbin</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-iproute2" role="content">
    <title>Contents of IPRoute2</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>arpd, ctstat (link to lnstat), genl, ifcfg, ifstat, ip, lnstat,
        nstat, routef, routel, rtacct, rtmon, rtpr, rtstat (link to lnstat), ss,
        and tc.</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="arpd">
        <term><command>arpd</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Userspace ARP daemon, useful in really large networks, where the
          kernelspace ARP implementation is insufficient, or when setting up a
          honeypot</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-iproute2 arpd">
            <primary sortas="b-arpd">arpd</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></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</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 continously 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>

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