ip (Unix utility)

ip - Linux command line utility from iproute2 package. It allows you to configure the network subsystem and is a replacement for utilities such as ifconfig , route , arp .

ip
Type of	iproute2 , TCP / IP Utilities
Developers	Stephen Hemminger [1] , formerly Alexey Kuznetsov
operating system	Linux
Latest version	2.6.31 [2] ( December 26, 2009 )
License	GPL2
Site	linuxfoundation.org/coll.....

To perform any operation after the ip command, the "object" and the command (possibly with arguments) are specified, which must be executed for this object.

As “objects”, you can specify the values ​​of link , addr (addresses of network interfaces), route (routes), rule (rules), neigh , ntable , tunnel (tunnels), maddr , mroute , monitor , xfrm . Instead of the full name of the object, you can specify only the first letters, if this does not cause ambiguity.

You can specify the help command to display help information. If you specify an object without a command, the show command is executed - a list of objects of the specified type is printed.

  Syntax: ip [OPTIONS] OBJECT {COMMAND |  help}
 
 Where
 
 OBJECT: = {link |  addr |  addrlabel |  route |  rule |  neigh |  ntable |  tunnel |  maddr |  mroute |  monitor |  xfrm}
 
 OPTIONS: = {-V [ersion] |  -s [tatistics] |  -d [etails] |  -r [esolve] | 
    -f [amily] {inet |  inet6 |  ipx |  dnet |  link} |  -o [neline] |  -t [imestamp]}