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Task-centered iproute2 user guide
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This article provides a task-centered guide for using the Linux iproute2 networking toolkit, which replaces legacy tools like ifconfig. It serves as a practical resource for system administrators to manage network interfaces and traffic policies.
iproute2 is the Linux networking toolkit that replaced legacy tools ( ifconfig , vconfig , brctl , route , arp etc.). Those tools are only kept for compatibility with old scripts and do not provide access to a lot of newer networking features of the Linux kernel.
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