diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index b360252f4..4f2f42ac3 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
 </itemizedlist>
 </listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>October 8, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
+</listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>October 7, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>October 4, 2005 [matt]: Prevent GCC from running the
diff --git a/chapter03/packages.xml b/chapter03/packages.xml
index 6b58dbab3..7301eb381 100644
--- a/chapter03/packages.xml
+++ b/chapter03/packages.xml
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ url="ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org/pub/lfs/"/>.</para></note>
 </varlistentry>
 
 <varlistentry>
-<term>IPRoute2 (&iproute2-version;) - 276 KB:</term>
+<term>IPRoute2 (&iproute2-version;) - 291 KB:</term>
 <listitem>
 <para><ulink url="http://developer.osdl.org/dev/iproute2/download/"/></para>
 </listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/iproute2.xml b/chapter06/iproute2.xml
index 1ed949d15..3a80d57ce 100644
--- a/chapter06/iproute2.xml
+++ b/chapter06/iproute2.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@
     <screen><userinput>sed -i '/^TARGETS/s@arpd@@g' misc/Makefile</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Prepare IPRoute2 for compilation:</para>
-    <screen><userinput>./configure</userinput></screen>
+    <screen><userinput>chmod u+x configure &amp;&amp;
+./configure</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
 
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index c1a22ec40..e80e58bfc 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20051007">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "October 7, 2005">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20051008">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "October 8, 2005">
 <!ENTITY milestone "6.2">
 <!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 <!ENTITY hotplug-version "2004_09_23">
 <!ENTITY iana-etc-version "2.00">
 <!ENTITY inetutils-version "1.4.2">
-<!ENTITY iproute2-version "2.6.11-050330">
+<!ENTITY iproute2-version "051007">
 <!ENTITY kbd-version "1.12">
 <!ENTITY less-version "382">
 <!ENTITY lfs-bootscripts-version "3.2.1">