iproute2 and Traffic Control
iproute2 is a software package that provides various tools for advanced routing, tunnels, and traffic control.
iproute2 was originally designed by Alexey Kuznetsov, and is well known for implementing QoS in Linux kernels and is now maintained by Stephen Hemminger. The primary site for iproute2 is http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Iproute2 and its main documentation site is http://www.lartc.org.
The most important tools that iproute2 provides are ip and tc.
Network Configuration: "ip" Tool
The ip tool provides most of the networking configuration a Linux box needs. You can configure interfaces, ARP, policy routing, tunnels, etc.
Now, with IPv4 and IPv6, ip can do pretty much anything (including a lot that we don't ...
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