Reported by Ivan Vilata i Balaguer <ivan@selidor.net>
found that the description of the `ip link add` command in the manpage
is outdated regarding the compulsory `link DEVICE` option.
For instance, `ip  link help` says:
    Usage: ip link add [link DEV] [ name ] NAME
     ...
But the manpage still says:
     ip link add link DEVICE [ name ] NAME

(Trying to provide a `link` option e.g. under an LXC container can frustrate
 the creation of dummy devices which don't need an actual device.)

The syntax of the "ip link help" output was fixed in commit
"iproute2: Fix usage and man page for 'ip link'" (a22e9295).
This updates the manpage to mark "link DEVICE" as an optional
argument there as well.

  http://bugs.debian.org/673171Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>

Commit (761a1e60 iproute2 - Split up manual page installation )
introduced man/man8/Makefile but did not add all the man pages.
This patch adds the missing man pages for installation.
Signed-off-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com>

Add a man page to cover the "ip l2tp" commands. Add a reference to it
in the main ip page.

This version removes the unnecessary setting of promiscuous mode
in the examples.
Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>

INET_DIAG_SKMEMINFO is used to monitor socket memory information
which contains more information than INET_DIAG_MEMINFO.

-m option is retained for old kernel that don't surpport INET_DIAG_SKMEMINFO.
Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com>

This reverts commit 16eba344.
Hold off until next release.

Adds support for parsing IPv6 addresses to the parameters local and
remote in the l2tp commands. Requires netlink attributes L2TP_ATTR_IP6_SADDR
and L2TP_ATTR_IP6_DADDR, added in a required kernel patch already submitted
to netdev.

Also enables printing of IPv6 addresses returned by the L2TP_CMD_TUNNEL_GET
request.
Signed-off-by: Chris Elston <celston@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>

Define where is the are located the iproute2 config files.
Get rid of trailing slashes for paths in several file.
Signed-off-by: Christoph J. Thompson <cjsthompson@gmail.com>

Generate manual pages based on where the config files are installed.
Add missing manual pages for utilities which are links to other binaries.
Make tc-pfifo.8 a real file that points to tc-bfifo.8 instead of symlink
which causes problems with compressing manual pages.
Signed-off-by: Christoph J. Thompson <cjsthompson@gmail.com>

Allows setting optimisation flags at compile time without patching the Makefile.

modified:   Makefile
Signed-off-by: Christoph J. Thompson <cjsthompson@gmail.com>

Allows using an alternate path for config files.
Signed-off-by: Christoph J. Thompson <cjsthompson@gmail.com>

Add a new netlink attribute type to the dump request to allow
filtering of the information returned for the respective matching
interfaces.  At this time the only filter defined is to request
virtual function (VF) device info for interfaces that attached VFs.

It will also be possible to extend the request with other yet to be
defined netlink attributes in the future.
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>

If kernel doesn't have INET_DIAG and using newish version of iproute
nothing would be displayed.

User new functions (inspired by libmnl) to do type safe access
of routeing attributes

Avoids showing negative metrics.
Signed-off-by: Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] <jorge@dti2.net>

The link mode is printed in upper case, and following the general
rule that ip command output should work on input, allow either case.

Exposes existing netlink operations to modify link state of devices.

Hi,

I've attached a trivial patch for iproute2 to allow naming interfaces
created with "ip l2tp add session".

I believe patches should go through the netdev mailing list but this
patch is so small I figured that would just add noise. Hope that's OK.

Originally I thought I would need a bigger patch and was going to take a
stab at implementing something like

ip l2tp add tunnel L2TP_TUNNEL_ARGS
ip link add name NAME  [ LINK_OPTS ] type l2tp L2TP_SESSION_ARGS

(a better interface IMHO) but all the code was there already, all that I
needed to add was option parsing.

Thanks,

João Valverde

From fd8c3b712527d2e959aeabc6f6b71a9910e7be7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jo=C3=A3o=20Valverde?= <joao.valverde@ist.utl.pt>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:30:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ipl2tp: allow setting session interface name

The kernel supports a link mode attribute (which can be dormant or default).
This attribute is used to control how the link watch engine
handles operstate transistion.

This adds a new parameter to ip link command to allow setting and
displaying the value.
---

There is nothing in the standard that says 0 can't be used as a key.
It makes sense to allow it. Also fix typo where ikey was printed for
when printing okey.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

* update synopsis to match "ip address help" output
* specify IPv4, since "IP" is ambiguous
* remove deprecated site scope
* document lifetimes, home, and nodad
* update wording to make sense since page was split from the ip(8) page
* git rid of extra spaces

Debian warning that NAME wasn't parsible

Change the order of evaluation of ip link type arguements to allow
changing parameters of gre tunnels.

The following wouldn't work:
 # ip li add mytunnel type gretap remote 1.1.1.1 key 3
 # ip li set mytunnel type gretap key 9

Follow convention of kernel and keep cscope file around
after make clean.

As reported by Thomas Mühlgrabner <muehltom@cable.vol.at>
in http://bugs.debian.org/662979 :

 When showing htb class configuration with "tc -iec class show",
 the output for Mibit is actually the value for bit.
 Example: configure a class with a ceil of 1000Mibit.
 Output states 1048576000 Mibit.

The cause is missing parenteses in the display code of tc....

(Please also note that a lower value of 100Mibit will be displayed
as 102400 Kibit, which I think is kind of ugly.)
Reported-by: Thomas Mühlgrabner <muehltom@cable.vol.at>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>

LIBNETLINK will be defined in the main Makefile, so
both ../lib/libnetlink.a ../lib/libutil.a will be
automatically appended during linking. Otherwise
../lib/libnetlink.a ../lib/libutil.a will appear
twice during linking.
Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>

Just a minor correction of mqprio printf()'s.
Reported-by: Petr Písař <ppisar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Šabata <contyk@redhat.com>

On 64 bit platform, casting to unsigned long long is unnecessary.
Use inttypes.h and stdtypes.h to resolve it.

A new option -p is added to the arpd command that accepts
a time indicating the number of seconds
to wait between kernel arp table polling attempts.
The minimum value is .1 (100ms).

If not specified, polling defaults to 30 seconds.

Patch by Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> with
modifications

Rather than copy-pasting code using sendmsg/recvmsg, use the simpler
send() and recv() system calls.

ss: Close file descriptors in tcp_show_netlink.
Signed-off-by: Matt Tierney <tierney@cs.nyu.edu>

/tmp is a dangerous place and better to put log files in /var/log.
Based on patch by Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>

Based on patch by Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Don't use /tmp since it is dangerous, instead put temporary files
from configure script in build directory. This is what autoconf
generated configure does.