<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Introduction to iproute2</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Layout of this document" HREF="lartc.intro.layout.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Why iproute2?" HREF="lartc.iproute2.why.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="lartc.intro.layout.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="lartc.iproute2.why.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="LARTC.IPROUTE2" ></A >Chapter 3. Introduction to iproute2</H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="lartc.iproute2.why.html" >Why iproute2?</A ></DT ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="lartc.iproute2.tour.html" >iproute2 tour</A ></DT ><DT >3.3. <A HREF="lartc.iproute2.package.html" >Prerequisites</A ></DT ><DT >3.4. <A HREF="lartc.iproute2.explore.html" >Exploring your current configuration</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.4.1. <A HREF="lartc.iproute2.explore.html#AEN187" ><B CLASS="COMMAND" >ip</B > shows us our links</A ></DT ><DT >3.4.2. <A HREF="lartc.iproute2.explore.html#AEN196" ><B CLASS="COMMAND" >ip</B > shows us our IP addresses</A ></DT ><DT >3.4.3. <A HREF="lartc.iproute2.explore.html#AEN206" ><B CLASS="COMMAND" >ip</B > shows us our routes</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3.5. <A HREF="lartc.iproute2.arp.html" >ARP</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="lartc.intro.layout.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="lartc.iproute2.why.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Layout of this document</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Why iproute2?</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >