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=====Introduction===== | =====Introduction===== | ||
- | Iproute2 is a collection of utilities for controlling [[https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/TCP|TCP]] / [[https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/IP|IP]] networking and traffic control in Linux. It is currently maintained by Stephen Hemminger [[mailto:stephen@networkplumber.org|<stephen@networkplumber.org>]]. The original author, Alexey Kuznetsov, is well known for the QoS implementation in the Linux kernel. | + | Iproute2 is a collection of utilities for controlling [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP|TCP]] / [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP|IP]] networking and traffic control in Linux. It is currently maintained by Stephen Hemminger [[mailto:stephen@networkplumber.org|<stephen@networkplumber.org>]]. The original author, Alexey Kuznetsov, is well known for the QoS implementation in the Linux kernel. |
- | Most network configuration manuals still refer to [[https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/ifconfig|ifconfig]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/route|route]] as the primary network configuration tools, but ifconfig is known to behave inadequately in modern network environments. They should be deprecated, but most [[https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Linux_distributions|distros]] still include them. Most network configuration systems make use of ifconfig and thus provide a limited feature set. The [[https://www.linuxfoundation.org/node/add/wiki?gids[]=5066|/etc/net]] project aims to support most modern network technologies, as it doesn't use ifconfig and allows a system administrator to make use of all iproute2 features, including traffic control. | + | Most network configuration manuals still refer to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ifconfig|ifconfig]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/route|route]] as the primary network configuration tools, but ifconfig is known to behave inadequately in modern network environments. They should be deprecated, but most [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distributions|distros]] still include them. Most network configuration systems make use of ifconfig and thus provide a limited feature set. The [[:networking:etcnet|/etc/net]] project aims to support most modern network technologies, as it doesn't use ifconfig and allows a system administrator to make use of all iproute2 features, including traffic control. |
- | iproute2 is usually shipped in a package called iproute or iproute2 and consists of several tools, of which the most important are //ip// and //tc//. ip controls [[https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/IPv4|IPv4]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/IPv6|IPv6]] configuration and tc stands for traffic control. Both tools print detailed usage messages and are accompanied by a set of [[https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Manual_page_%28Unix%29|manpages]]. | + | iproute2 is usually shipped in a package called iproute or iproute2 and consists of several tools, of which the most important are //ip// and //tc//. ip controls [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4|IPv4]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6|IPv6]] configuration and tc stands for traffic control. Both tools print detailed usage messages and are accompanied by a set of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_page_%28Unix%29|manpages]]. |
=====Download===== | =====Download===== | ||