Terms starting with I

6 terms in Linux

  • ifconfig

    Linux › Networking

    ifconfig is the legacy Linux command for viewing and configuring network interfaces, addresses and flags, now largely replaced by the ip command.

  • Init system

    Linux › System initialization

    An init system is the first user-space process a Linux kernel starts, running as PID 1 to boot services, supervise them and…

  • inode

    Linux › Filesystem

    An inode is the Linux filesystem record that stores a file's metadata and data locations, identified by a number and separate from…

  • iostat

    Linux › Monitoring

    iostat is a Linux monitoring tool from the sysstat package that reports CPU usage and per-device disk I/O rates, latency, queue depth…

  • ip command

    Linux › Networking

    The ip command is the Linux networking tool from iproute2 that shows and changes interfaces, addresses, routes and neighbors through the kernel's…

  • iptables

    Linux › Networking

    iptables is the classic Linux command-line tool for defining packet filtering and NAT rules that the kernel's Netfilter framework applies to traffic.