IP(8) Linux IP(8)NAMEip - show / manipulate routing, devices, policy routing and tunnels
SYNOPSISip [ OPTIONS ] OBJECT { COMMAND | help }
OBJECT := { link | addr | addrlabel | route | rule | neigh | ntable |
tunnel | tuntap | maddr | mroute | mrule | monitor | xfrm |
netns | l2tp }
OPTIONS := { -V[ersion] | -s[tatistics] | -r[esolve] | -f[amily] { inet
| inet6 | ipx | dnet | link } | -o[neline] }
OPTIONS-V, -Version
print the version of the ip utility and exit.
-s, -stats, -statistics
output more information. If the option appears twice or more,
the amount of information increases. As a rule, the information
is statistics or some time values.
-l, -loops
Specify maximum number of loops the 'ip addr flush' logic will
attempt before giving up. The default is 10. Zero (0) means
loop until all addresses are removed.
-f, -family
followed by protocol family identifier: inet, inet6 or link
,enforce the protocol family to use. If the option is not
present, the protocol family is guessed from other arguments.
If the rest of the command line does not give enough information
to guess the family, ip falls back to the default one, usually
inet or any. link is a special family identifier meaning that
no networking protocol is involved.
-4 shortcut for -family inet.
-6 shortcut for -family inet6.
-0 shortcut for -family link.
-o, -oneline
output each record on a single line, replacing line feeds with
the '\´ character. This is convenient when you want to count
records with wc(1)
or to grep(1) the output.
-r, -resolve
use the system's name resolver to print DNS names instead of
host addresses.
IP - COMMAND SYNTAX
OBJECT
address
- protocol (IP or IPv6) address on a device.
addrlabel
- label configuration for protocol address selection.
l2tp - tunnel ethernet over IP (L2TPv3).
link - network device.
maddress
- multicast address.
monitor
- watch for netlink messages.
mroute - multicast routing cache entry.
mrule - rule in multicast routing policy database.
neighbour
- manage ARP or NDISC cache entries.
netns - manage network namespaces.
ntable - manage the neighbor cache's operation.
route - routing table entry.
rule - rule in routing policy database.
tunnel - tunnel over IP.
tuntap - manage TUN/TAP devices.
xfrm - manage IPSec policies.
The names of all objects may be written in full or abbreviated form,
f.e. address is abbreviated as addr or just a.
COMMAND
Specifies the action to perform on the object. The set of possible
actions depends on the object type. As a rule, it is possible to add,
delete and show (or list ) objects, but some objects do not allow all
of these operations or have some additional commands. The help command
is available for all objects. It prints out a list of available com‐
mands and argument syntax conventions.
If no command is given, some default command is assumed. Usually it is
list or, if the objects of this class cannot be listed, help.
HISTORYip was written by Alexey N. Kuznetsov and added in Linux 2.2.
SEE ALSOip-address(8), ip-addrlabel(8), ip-l2tp(8), ip-link(8), ip-maddress(8),
ip-monitor(8), ip-mroute(8), ip-neighbour(8), ip-netns(8), ip-
ntable(8), ip-route(8), ip-rule(8), ip-tunnel(8), ip-xfrm(8)
IP Command reference ip-cref.ps
REPORTING BUGS
Report bug to the Network Developers mailing list <netdev@vger.ker‐
nel.org> where the development and maintenance is primarily done. You
do not have to be subscribed to the list to send a message there.
AUTHOR
Original Manpage by Michail Litvak <mci@owl.openwall.com>
iproute2 20 Dec 2011 IP(8)
