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>Welcome, gentle reader.</P
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> This document hopes to enlighten you on how to do more with Linux 2.2/2.4
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routing. Unbeknownst to most users, you already run tools which allow you to
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do spectacular things. Commands like <B
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very thin wrappers for the very powerful iproute2 infrastructure.</P
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> I hope that this HOWTO will become as readable as the ones by Rusty Russell
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of (amongst other things) netfilter fame.
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</P
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> You can always reach us by writing to the <A
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list (see the relevant section) if you have questions which are not directly
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related to this HOWTO. We are no free helpdesk, but we often will answer questions
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>Before losing your way in this HOWTO, if all you want to do is simple
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traffic shaping, skip everything and head to the <I
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