Chapter 2. Introduction
Welcome, gentle reader.
This document hopes to enlighten you on how to do more with Linux 2.2/2.4
routing. Unbeknownst to most users, you already run tools which allow you to
do spectacular things. Commands like route and
ifconfig are actually
very thin wrappers for the very powerful iproute2 infrastructure.
I hope that this HOWTO will become as readable as the ones by Rusty Russell
of (amongst other things) netfilter fame.
You can always reach us by writing to the HOWTO team. However, please consider posting to the mailing
list (see the relevant section) if you have questions which are not directly
related to this HOWTO. We are no free helpdesk, but we often will answer questions
asked on the list.
Before losing your way in this HOWTO, if all you want to do is simple
traffic shaping, skip everything and head to the Other possibilities chapter, and read about CBQ.init.
This document is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
In short, if your STM-64 backbone breaks down and distributes pornography to
your most esteemed customers - it's never our fault. Sorry.
Copyright (c) 2002 by bert hubert, Gregory Maxwell, Martijn van
Oosterhout, Remco van Mook, Paul B. Schroeder and others. This material may
be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the
Open Publication License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently
available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/).
Please freely copy and distribute (sell or give away) this document in any
format. It's requested that corrections and/or comments be forwarded to the
document maintainer.
It is also requested that if you publish this HOWTO in hardcopy that you
send the authors some samples for "review purposes" :-)
