On Thursday 03 May 2007, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:13:33AM -0600, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > > Might I suggest in all of this that you begin to learn the new tools? > > emerge iproute2 and use the 'ip' command. ifconfig is deprecated and has > > not supported all of the features of the Linux networking stack since the > > 2.4 kernels. It's embarrassing IMO that most distros still ship with > > ifconfig as the default. > > I'd have learned about it had I known about it. ip must be one of the > better kept secrets of Linux. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. > > The man page is a bit obtuse; can you recommend a write-up more > oriented to those who are new to the program?
Unfortunately, the best google could find IMO is: http://www.policyrouting.org/iproute2-toc.html which probably comes from the included reference doc which is in .tex format, which seems about the same as the man page. I had to just work through the man pages and help info. While obtuse, the basic features are easy enough to get the hang of quickly. I still haven't found good docs explaining some of the other features such as the use for the different scopes. I have successfully set up routing rules and custom routes, with and without fwmark in the mangle table, but the docs weren't extremely helpful in doing so. But, I'm not sure I'd be able to with the old ifconfig and route tools at all. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
