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diff --git a/man/man8/ip.8 b/man/man8/ip.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..72227d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man8/ip.8 @@ -0,0 +1,445 @@ +.TH IP 8 "20 Dec 2011" "iproute2" "Linux" +.SH NAME +ip \- show / manipulate routing, network devices, interfaces and tunnels +.SH SYNOPSIS + +.ad l +.in +8 +.ti -8 +.B ip +.RI "[ " OPTIONS " ] " OBJECT " { " COMMAND " | " +.BR help " }" +.sp + +.ti -8 +.B ip +.RB "[ " -force " ] " +.BI "-batch " filename +.sp + +.ti -8 +.IR OBJECT " := { " +.BR link " | " address " | " addrlabel " | " route " | " rule " | " neigh " | "\ + ntable " | " tunnel " | " tuntap " | " maddress " | " mroute " | " mrule " | "\ + monitor " | " xfrm " | " netns " | " l2tp " | " tcp_metrics " | " token " | "\ + macsec " | " vrf " | " mptcp " | " ioam " | " stats " }" +.sp + +.ti -8 +.IR OPTIONS " := { " +\fB\-V\fR[\fIersion\fR] | +\fB\-h\fR[\fIuman-readable\fR] | +\fB\-s\fR[\fItatistics\fR] | +\fB\-d\fR[\fIetails\fR] | +\fB\-r\fR[\fIesolve\fR] | +\fB\-iec\fR | +\fB\-f\fR[\fIamily\fR] { +.BR inet " | " inet6 " | " link " } | " +\fB-4\fR | +\fB-6\fR | +\fB-B\fR | +\fB-0\fR | +\fB-l\fR[\fIoops\fR] { \fBmaximum-addr-flush-attempts\fR } | +\fB\-o\fR[\fIneline\fR] | +\fB\-rc\fR[\fIvbuf\fR] [\fBsize\fR] | +\fB\-t\fR[\fIimestamp\fR] | +\fB\-ts\fR[\fIhort\fR] | +\fB\-n\fR[\fIetns\fR] name | +\fB\-N\fR[\fIumeric\fR] | +\fB\-a\fR[\fIll\fR] | +\fB\-c\fR[\fIolor\fR] | +\fB\-br\fR[\fIief\fR] | +\fB\-j\fR[son\fR] | +\fB\-p\fR[retty\fR] } + +.SH OPTIONS + +.TP +.BR "\-V" , " -Version" +Print the version of the +.B ip +utility and exit. + +.TP +.BR "\-h", " \-human", " \-human-readable" +output statistics with human readable values followed by suffix. + +.TP +.BR "\-b", " \-batch " <FILENAME> +Read commands from provided file or standard input and invoke them. +First failure will cause termination of ip. + +.TP +.BR "\-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. + +.TP +.BR "\-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. + +.TP +.BR "\-d" , " \-details" +Output more detailed information. + +.TP +.BR "\-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. + +.TP +.BR "\-f" , " \-family " <FAMILY> +Specifies the protocol family to use. The protocol family identifier +can be one of +.BR "inet" , " inet6" , " bridge" , " mpls" +or +.BR 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, +.B ip +falls back to the default one, usually +.B inet +or +.BR "any" . +.B link +is a special family identifier meaning that no networking protocol +is involved. + +.TP +.B \-4 +shortcut for +.BR "-family inet" . + +.TP +.B \-6 +shortcut for +.BR "\-family inet6" . + +.TP +.B \-B +shortcut for +.BR "\-family bridge" . + +.TP +.B \-M +shortcut for +.BR "\-family mpls" . + +.TP +.B \-0 +shortcut for +.BR "\-family link" . + +.TP +.BR "\-o" , " \-oneline" +output each record on a single line, replacing line feeds +with the +.B '\e' +character. This is convenient when you want to count records +with +.BR wc (1) +or to +.BR grep (1) +the output. + +.TP +.BR "\-r" , " \-resolve" +use the system's name resolver to print DNS names instead of +host addresses. + +.TP +.BR "\-n" , " \-netns " <NETNS> +switches +.B ip +to the specified network namespace +.IR NETNS . +Actually it just simplifies executing of: + +.B ip netns exec +.IR NETNS +.B ip +.RI "[ " OPTIONS " ] " OBJECT " { " COMMAND " | " +.BR help " }" + +to + +.B ip +.RI "-n[etns] " NETNS " [ " OPTIONS " ] " OBJECT " { " COMMAND " | " +.BR help " }" + +.TP +.BR "\-N" , " \-Numeric" +Print the number of protocol, scope, dsfield, etc directly instead of +converting it to human readable name. + +.TP +.BR "\-a" , " \-all" +executes specified command over all objects, it depends if command +supports this option. + +.TP +.BR \-c [ color ][ = { always | auto | never } +Configure color output. If parameter is omitted or +.BR always , +color output is enabled regardless of stdout state. If parameter is +.BR auto , +stdout is checked to be a terminal before enabling color output. If +parameter is +.BR never , +color output is disabled. If specified multiple times, the last one takes +precedence. This flag is ignored if +.B \-json +is also given. + +Used color palette can be influenced by +.BR COLORFGBG +environment variable +(see +.BR ENVIRONMENT ). + +.TP +.BR "\-t" , " \-timestamp" +display current time when using monitor option. + +.TP +.BR "\-ts" , " \-tshort" +Like +.BR \-timestamp , +but use shorter format. + +.TP +.BR "\-rc" , " \-rcvbuf" <SIZE> +Set the netlink socket receive buffer size, defaults to 1MB. + +.TP +.BR "\-iec" +print human readable rates in IEC units (e.g. 1Ki = 1024). + +.TP +.BR "\-br" , " \-brief" +Print only basic information in a tabular format for better +readability. This option is currently only supported by +.BR "ip addr show ", " ip link show " & " ip neigh show " commands. + +.TP +.BR "\-j", " \-json" +Output results in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). + +.TP +.BR "\-p", " \-pretty" +The default JSON format is compact and more efficient to parse but +hard for most users to read. This flag adds indentation for +readability. + +.TP +.BR "\-echo" +Request the kernel to send the applied configuration back. + +.SH IP - COMMAND SYNTAX + +.SS +.I OBJECT + +.TP +.B address +- protocol (IP or IPv6) address on a device. + +.TP +.B addrlabel +- label configuration for protocol address selection. + +.TP +.B ioam +- manage IOAM namespaces and IOAM schemas. + +.TP +.B l2tp +- tunnel ethernet over IP (L2TPv3). + +.TP +.B link +- network device. + +.TP +.B maddress +- multicast address. + +.TP +.B monitor +- watch for netlink messages. + +.TP +.B mptcp +- manage MPTCP path manager. + +.TP +.B mroute +- multicast routing cache entry. + +.TP +.B mrule +- rule in multicast routing policy database. + +.TP +.B neighbour +- manage ARP or NDISC cache entries. + +.TP +.B netns +- manage network namespaces. + +.TP +.B ntable +- manage the neighbor cache's operation. + +.TP +.B route +- routing table entry. + +.TP +.B rule +- rule in routing policy database. + +.TP +.B stats +- manage and show interface statistics. + +.TP +.B tcp_metrics/tcpmetrics +- manage TCP Metrics + +.TP +.B token +- manage tokenized interface identifiers. + +.TP +.B tunnel +- tunnel over IP. + +.TP +.B tuntap +- manage TUN/TAP devices. + +.TP +.B vrf +- manage virtual routing and forwarding devices. + +.TP +.B xfrm +- manage IPSec policies. + +.PP +The names of all objects may be written in full or +abbreviated form, for example +.B address +can be abbreviated as +.B addr +or just +.B a. + +.SS +.I 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 +.BR "add" , " delete" +and +.B show +(or +.B list +) objects, but some objects do not allow all of these operations +or have some additional commands. The +.B help +command is available for all objects. It prints +out a list of available commands and argument syntax conventions. +.sp +If no command is given, some default command is assumed. +Usually it is +.B list +or, if the objects of this class cannot be listed, +.BR "help" . + +.SH ENVIRONMENT +.TP +.B COLORFGBG +If set, it's value is used for detection whether background is dark or +light and use contrast colors for it. + +COLORFGBG environment variable usually contains either two or three +values separated by semicolons; we want the last value in either case. +If this value is 0-6 or 8, chose colors suitable for dark background: + +COLORFGBG=";0" ip -c a + +.SH 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. + +.SH "EXAMPLES" +.PP +ip addr +.RS 4 +Shows addresses assigned to all network interfaces. +.RE +.PP +ip neigh +.RS 4 +Shows the current neighbour table in kernel. +.RE +.PP +ip link set x up +.RS 4 +Bring up interface x. +.RE +.PP +ip link set x down +.RS 4 +Bring down interface x. +.RE +.PP +ip route +.RS 4 +Show table routes. +.RE + +.SH HISTORY +.B ip +was written by Alexey N. Kuznetsov and added in Linux 2.2. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR ip-address (8), +.BR ip-addrlabel (8), +.BR ip-ioam (8), +.BR ip-l2tp (8), +.BR ip-link (8), +.BR ip-maddress (8), +.BR ip-monitor (8), +.BR ip-mptcp (8), +.BR ip-mroute (8), +.BR ip-neighbour (8), +.BR ip-netns (8), +.BR ip-ntable (8), +.BR ip-route (8), +.BR ip-rule (8), +.BR ip-stats (8) +.BR ip-tcp_metrics (8), +.BR ip-token (8), +.BR ip-tunnel (8), +.BR ip-vrf (8), +.BR ip-xfrm (8) +.br +.RB "IP Command reference " ip-cref.ps +.SH REPORTING BUGS +Report any bugs to the Network Developers mailing list +.B <netdev@vger.kernel.org> +where the development and maintenance is primarily done. +You do not have to be subscribed to the list to send a message there. + +.SH AUTHOR +Original Manpage by Michail Litvak <mci@owl.openwall.com> |