IP(8) Linux IP(8)
NAME
ip - show / manipulate routing, devices, policy routing and tunnels
SYNOPSIS
ip [ OPTIONS ] OBJECT { COMMAND | help }
ip [ -force ] -batch filename
OBJECT := { link | address | addrlabel | route | rule | neigh | ntable
| tunnel | tuntap | maddress | mroute | mrule | monitor | xfrm
| netns | l2tp | tcp_metrics | token | macsec }
OPTIONS := { -V[ersion] | -h[uman-readable] | -s[tatistics] |
-d[etails] | -r[esolve] | -iec | -f[amily] { inet | inet6 | ipx
| dnet | link } | -4 | -6 | -I | -D | -B | -0 | -l[oops] { max-
imum-addr-flush-attempts } | -o[neline] | -rc[vbuf] [size] |
-t[imestamp] | -ts[hort] | -n[etns] name | -a[ll] | -c[olor] }
OPTIONS
-V, -Version
Print the version of the ip utility and exit.
-h, -human, -human-readable
output statistics with human readable values followed by suffix.
-b, -batch <FILENAME>
Read commands from provided file or standard input and invoke
them. First failure will cause termination of ip.
-force Don't terminate ip on errors in batch mode. If there were any
errors during execution of the commands, the application return
code will be non zero.
-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.
-d, -details
Output more detailed information.
-l, -loops <COUNT>
Specify maximum number of loops the 'ip address flush' logic
will attempt before giving up. The default is 10. Zero (0)
means loop until all addresses are removed.
-f, -family <FAMILY>
Specifies the protocol family to use. The protocol family iden-
tifier can be one of inet, inet6, bridge, ipx, dnet, mpls or
link. If this 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.
-B shortcut for -family bridge.
-D shortcut for -family decnet.
-I shortcut for -family ipx.
-M shortcut for -family mpls.
-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.
-n, -netns <NETNS>
switches ip to the specified network namespace NETNS. Actually
it just simplifies executing of:
ip netns exec NETNS ip [ OPTIONS ] OBJECT { COMMAND | help }
to
ip -n[etns] NETNS [ OPTIONS ] OBJECT { COMMAND | help }
-a, -all
executes specified command over all objects, it depends if com-
mand supports this option.
-c, -color
Use color output.
-t, -timestamp
display current time when using monitor option.
-ts, -tshort
Like -timestamp, but use shorter format.
-rc, -rcvbuf<SIZE>
Set the netlink socket receive buffer size, defaults to 1MB.
-iec print human readable rates in IEC units (e.g. 1Ki = 1024).
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.
tcp_metrics/tcpmetrics
- manage TCP Metrics
token - manage tokenized interface identifiers.
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,
for example address can be 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.
EXIT STATUS
Exit status is 0 if command was successful, and 1 if there is a syntax
error. If an error was reported by the kernel exit status is 2.
EXAMPLES
ip addr
Shows addresses assigned to all network interfaces.
ip neigh
Shows the current neighbour table in kernel.
ip link set x up
Bring up interface x.
ip link set x down
Bring down interface x.
ip route
Show table routes.
HISTORY
ip was written by Alexey N. Kuznetsov and added in Linux 2.2.
SEE ALSO
ip-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-tcp_metrics(8), ip-token(8), ip-
tunnel(8), ip-xfrm(8)
IP Command reference ip-cref.ps
REPORTING BUGS
Report any bugs to the Network Developers mailing list <net-
dev AT vger.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 AT owl.com>
iproute2 20 Dec 2011 IP(8)
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