IP-ADDRESS(8) Linux IP-ADDRESS(8)
NAME
ip-address - protocol address management
SYNOPSIS
ip [ OPTIONS ] address { COMMAND | help }
ip address { add | change | replace } IFADDR dev IFNAME [ LIFETIME ] [ CONFFLAG-LIST ]
ip address del IFADDR dev IFNAME [ mngtmpaddr ]
ip address { save | flush } [ dev IFNAME ] [ scope SCOPE-ID ] [ to PREFIX ] [ FLAG-LIST ] [ label PATTERN ] [
up ]
ip address [ show [ dev IFNAME ] [ scope SCOPE-ID ] [ to PREFIX ] [ FLAG-LIST ] [ label PATTERN ] [ master
DEVICE ] [ type TYPE ] [ up ] ]
ip address { showdump | restore }
IFADDR := PREFIX | ADDR peer PREFIX [ broadcast ADDR ] [ anycast ADDR ] [ label LABEL ] [ scope SCOPE-ID ]
SCOPE-ID := [ host | link | global | NUMBER ]
FLAG-LIST := [ FLAG-LIST ] FLAG
FLAG := [ permanent | dynamic | secondary | primary | [-]tentative | [-]deprecated | [-]dadfailed | temporary
| CONFFLAG-LIST ]
CONFFLAG-LIST := [ CONFFLAG-LIST ] CONFFLAG
CONFFLAG := [ home | mngtmpaddr | nodad | noprefixroute | autojoin ]
LIFETIME := [ valid_lft LFT ] [ preferred_lft LFT ]
LFT := [ forever | SECONDS ]
TYPE := [ bridge | bond | can | dummy | hsr | ifb | ipoib | macvlan | macvtap | vcan | veth | vlan | vxlan |
ip6tnl | ipip | sit | gre | gretap | ip6gre | ip6gretap | vti | nlmon | lowpan | geneve | macsec ]
DESCRIPTION
The address is a protocol (IPv4 or IPv6) address attached to a network device. Each device must have at least
one address to use the corresponding protocol. It is possible to have several different addresses attached to
one device. These addresses are not discriminated, so that the term alias is not quite appropriate for them
and we do not use it in this document.
The ip address command displays addresses and their properties, adds new addresses and deletes old ones.
ip address add - add new protocol address.
dev IFNAME
the name of the device to add the address to.
local ADDRESS (default)
the address of the interface. The format of the address depends on the protocol. It is a dotted quad
the broadcast address on the interface.
It is possible to use the special symbols '+' and '-' instead of the broadcast address. In this case,
the broadcast address is derived by setting/resetting the host bits of the interface prefix.
label LABEL
Each address may be tagged with a label string. In order to preserve compatibility with Linux-2.0 net
aliases, this string must coincide with the name of the device or must be prefixed with the device name
followed by colon.
scope SCOPE_VALUE
the scope of the area where this address is valid. The available scopes are listed in file
/etc/iproute2/rt_scopes. Predefined scope values are:
global - the address is globally valid.
site - (IPv6 only, deprecated) the address is site local, i.e. it is valid inside this site.
link - the address is link local, i.e. it is valid only on this device.
host - the address is valid only inside this host.
valid_lft LFT
the valid lifetime of this address; see section 5.5.4 of RFC 4862. When it expires, the address is
removed by the kernel. Defaults to forever.
preferred_lft LFT
the preferred lifetime of this address; see section 5.5.4 of RFC 4862. When it expires, the address is
no longer used for new outgoing connections. Defaults to forever.
home (IPv6 only) designates this address the "home address" as defined in RFC 6275.
mngtmpaddr
(IPv6 only) make the kernel manage temporary addresses created from this one as template on behalf of
Privacy Extensions (RFC3041). For this to become active, the use_tempaddr sysctl setting has to be set
to a value greater than zero. The given address needs to have a prefix length of 64. This flag allows
to use privacy extensions in a manually configured network, just like if stateless auto-configuration
was active.
nodad (IPv6 only) do not perform Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4862) when adding this address.
noprefixroute
Do not automatically create a route for the network prefix of the added address, and don't search for
one to delete when removing the address. Changing an address to add this flag will remove the automati‐
cally added prefix route, changing it to remove this flag will create the prefix route automatically.
ip address delete - delete protocol address
Arguments: coincide with the arguments of ip addr add. The device name is a required argument. The rest are
optional. If no arguments are given, the first address is deleted.
ip address show - look at protocol addresses
dev IFNAME (default)
name of device.
scope SCOPE_VAL
only list addresses with this scope.
to PREFIX
only list addresses matching this prefix.
label PATTERN
only list addresses with labels matching the PATTERN. PATTERN is a usual shell style pattern.
master DEVICE
only list interfaces enslaved to this master device.
type TYPE
only list interfaces of the given type.
Note that the type name is not checked against the list of supported types - instead it is sent as-is
to the kernel. Later it is used to filter the returned interface list by comparing it with the relevant
attribute in case the kernel didn't filter already. Therefore any string is accepted, but may lead to
empty output.
up only list running interfaces.
dynamic and permanent
(IPv6 only) only list addresses installed due to stateless address configuration or only list permanent
(not dynamic) addresses.
tentative
(IPv6 only) only list addresses which have not yet passed duplicate address detection.
-tentative
(IPv6 only) only list addresses which are not in the process of duplicate address detection currently.
deprecated
(IPv6 only) only list deprecated addresses.
temporary
(IPv6 only) only list temporary addresses.
primary and secondary
only list primary (or secondary) addresses.
ip address flush - flush protocol addresses
This command flushes the protocol addresses selected by some criteria.
This command has the same arguments as show except that type and master selectors are not supported. Another
difference is that it does not run when no arguments are given.
Warning: This command and other flush commands are unforgiving. They will cruelly purge all the addresses.
With the -statistics option, the command becomes verbose. It prints out the number of deleted addresses and
the number of rounds made to flush the address list. If this option is given twice, ip address flush also
dumps all the deleted addresses in the format described in the previous subsection.
EXAMPLES
ip address show
Shows IPv4 and IPv6 addresses assigned to all network interfaces. The 'show' subcommand can be omitted.
ip address show up
Same as above except that only addresses assigned to active network interfaces are shown.
ip address show dev eth0
Shows IPv4 and IPv6 addresses assigned to network interface eth0.
ip address add 2001:0db8:85a3::0370:7334/64 dev eth1
Adds an IPv6 address to network interface eth1.
ip address delete 2001:0db8:85a3::0370:7334/64 dev eth1
Delete the IPv6 address added above.
ip address flush dev eth4 scope global
Removes all global IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from device eth4. Without 'scope global' it would remove all
addresses including IPv6 link-local ones.
SEE ALSO
ip(8)
AUTHOR
Original Manpage by Michail Litvak <[email protected]>
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