Hi Richard,
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 05:11:47AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Can you recommend a good introduction to iproute2 which ignores the
existence of net-tools (start newbies with good habits)?
Unfortunately I don't think I actually can. Being someone who
started off with the net-tools commands (and frankly, still having
to force myself to reach for the newer iproute2 ones) I've never
really gone looking for iproute2 tutorials. More "how do I do this
net-tools thing in iproute2?".
Anyway, the best I've found is this:
http://baturin.org/docs/iproute2/
but some of the more advanced examples here suffer from the problem
of explaining how to do a thing without actually explaining what that
thing is or why one might want to do it.
Here's a page I sometimes refer to when trying to work out what teh
iproute2 equivalent is:
https://dougvitale.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/deprecated-linux-networking-commands-and-their-replacements/
That's about the best I can do I'm afraid. Perhaps others have
better links.
I find man pages a poor fit for what I'm looking for.
Yes, the man pages for the iproute2 tools are notoriously awful,
looking as they do like the output of some sort of automated tool
rather than actual documentation.
The topic of "documentation is hard" is one that this list has
been over and over quite a few times recently. [snip]