Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig vs iproute2

[Joshua Schmidlkofer]

iproute2 is newer and while it takes over all of the abilities of ifconfig,
it is modularized and designed for controlling advanced router features as
well as basic interface related stuff.

The capabilities of it are vastly superior to ifconfig, and sometimes the
notation is simpler.

Setup eth0, and activate it:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 <http://192.168.1.1> netmask
255.255.255.0<http://255.255.255.0>broadcast
192.168.1.255 <http://192.168.1.255> up
route add -net 0/0 gw 192.168.1.254 <http://192.168.1.254>

ip addr add 192.168.1.1/24 <http://192.168.1.1/24> brd
192.168.1.255<http://192.168.1.255>
ip link set eth0 up
ip route add default via 192.168.1.254 <http://192.168.1.254>

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There is a type of NAT [aka FastNAT] that you can use with iproute2 -
involving no iptables/netfilter support. You can setup multiple defoult
routes, rudimentary load balancing, and other stuff.


For a better concept of the abilities of iproute2 - please see
http://lartc.org
The Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control site.

thanks,
joshua



On 10/12/05, Martins Steinbergs <mar@××.lv> wrote:
>
> hi
>
> what is the difference in general between these - ifconfig and iproute2?
>
> i used old style /etc/conf.d/net and it worked well until system last
> update i
> run - net was gone. made new style /etc/conf.d/net but ifconfig version
> refused to work, lucky i got windoze on other drive to get iproute2 source
> from mirror. ok, now net is working but im still confused about ifconfig
> not
> working, got these setings for single box connected to i-net, is there
> somethin' wrong?
>
> hotplug_eth0="yes"
>
> modules=( "iproute2" )
> here i tried both modules
>
> config_eth0=( "some_IP netmask some_IP broadcast some_IP" )
> routes_eth0=(
> "default via some_IP"
> "::/0"
> )
>
>
>
> martins
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