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iproute

NAME

iproute - program to control policy-based routing tables

SYNOPSIS

iproute [ -c | -r | -l ]

iproute [ add | del ] [ PREFIX | NET mask MASK ] [ tos TOS ] [ nat NET ] [ class CLASS ] INFO

iproute [ addrule | delrule ] [ from PREFIX ] [ to PREFIX ] [ tos TOS ] [ dev DEVICE ] [ masq | drop | reject | prohibit | nat NET ] [ pref PREFERENCE ] [ class CLASS | INFO ]

PREFIX can be a net number, or net number and prefix length, e.g. 192.168.0.0 or 192.168.0.0/24

INFO references any combination of the routing parameters "gw [gateway]", "dev [device]", "metric [metric]", "mtu [mtu]", "irtt [rtt]", "window [window]", and any of FLAGS

FLAGS can be any of "static", "reject", "throw", "nopmtudisc", "noforward", "local", "interface", and "broadcast" (reject and throw cannot be specified together, however, as with interface and broadcast).

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the various invocations of the iproute command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation as part of the Linux source tree. Note that this documentation may also be found in /usr/share/doc/iproute on Debian systems.

iproute will modify or show the current policy-based routing tables. These are held in kernel space, so iproute requires root permissions to run. Note that policy based routing tables are a feature of kernels 2.1.16 and above, so you will not be able to use this program unless you have a specific patch with an earlier kernel.

OPTIONS

iproute accepts the following single options on the command line:-

-c

Shows the current routing cache.

-r

Shows the current routing classes.

-l

Shows a long listing of routes.

Invoking the program with no command-line will produce a simple list of current routes.

SEE ALSO

route(8), ifconfig(8), netstat(8), arp(8)

The policy-based routing system is documented fully in the file Documentation/networking/policy-routing.txt which can be found in kernels 2.1.16 and above.

BUGS

Not very well documented anywhere :)

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.