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 }
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] { maximum-addr-flush-
attempts } | -o[neline] | -rc[vbuf] [size] | -t[imestamp] | -ts[hort] | -n[etns] name | -a[ll] }
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 termina‐
tion 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 identifier can be one of inet, inet6, bridge,
ipx, dnet 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
-D shortcut for -family decnet.
-I shortcut for -family ipx.
-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 command supports this option.
-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.
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 exampe 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 commands and argument syntax conventions.
REPORTING BUGS
Report any bugs to the Network Developers mailing list <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
iproute2 20 Dec 2011 IP(8)
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