iproute2
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Key facts
- Software.title
- iproute2
- Software.screenshot
- Ip addr example screenshot.png
- Software.caption
- Screenshot of ip addr in Linux
- Software.author
- Alexey Kuznetsov
- Software.developer
- Stephen Hemminger
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Linux
- Software.genre
- Networking
- Software.license
- GPLv2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Official website
- wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/iproute2
- Image
- Ip addr example screenshot.png
- Has use
- computer network
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- software version identifier
- 7.0.0
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0
- inception
- 2004-04-15
- operating system
- Linux
- source code repository URL
- github.com/shemminger/iproute2
- different from
- ipconfig
- programmed in
- Q15777
- mailing list archive URL
- www.spinics.net/lists/netdev
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Project
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iproute2 is a collection of userspace utilities for controlling and monitoring various aspects of networking in the Linux kernel, including routing, network interfaces, tunnels, traffic control, and network-related device drivers.
==Project== iproute2 is an open-source project released under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License. Its development is closely tied to the development of networking components of the Linux kernel. , iproute2 is maintained by Stephen Hemminger and David Ahern. The original author, Alexey Kuznetsov, was responsible for the quality of service (QoS) implementation in the Linux kernel.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “iproute2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.