Manual: ip
IP(8) Linux IP(8)
NAME
ip - show / manipulate routing, network devices, interfaces and tunnels
SYNOPSIS
ip [ OPTIONS ] OBJECT { COMMAND | help }
ip [ -force ] -batch filename
OBJECT := { address | addrlabel | fou | help | ila | ioam | l2tp | link | macsec | maddress | monitor | mptcp |
mroute | mrule | neighbor | neighbour | netconf | netns | nexthop | ntable | ntbl | route | rule | sr | tap |
tcpmetrics | token | tunnel | tuntap | vrf | xfrm }
OPTIONS := { -V[ersion] | -h[uman-readable] | -s[tatistics] | -d[etails] | -r[esolve] | -iec | -f[amily] { inet |
inet6 | link } | -4 | -6 | -B | -0 | -l[oops] { maximum-addr-flush-attempts } | -o[neline] | -rc[vbuf] [size]
| -t[imestamp] | -ts[hort] | -n[etns] name | -N[umeric] | -a[ll] | -c[olor] | -br[ief] | -j[son] | -p[retty]
}
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
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
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
Specifies the protocol family to use. The protocol family identifier can be one of inet, inet6, bridge, 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, usu‐
ally 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.
-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
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 }
-N, -Numeric
Print the number of protocol, scope, dsfield, etc directly instead of converting it to human readable name.
-a, -all
executes specified command over all objects, it depends if command supports this option.
-c[color][={always|auto|never}
Configure color output. If parameter is omitted or always, color output is enabled regardless of stdout state.
If parameter is auto, stdout is checked to be a terminal before enabling color output. If parameter is never,
color output is disabled. If specified multiple times, the last one takes precedence. This flag is ignored if
-json is also given.
Used color palette can be influenced by COLORFGBG environment variable (see ENVIRONMENT).
-t, -timestamp
display current time when using monitor option.
-ts, -tshort
Like -timestamp, but use shorter format.
-rc, -rcvbuf
Set the netlink socket receive buffer size, defaults to 1MB.
-iec print human readable rates in IEC units (e.g. 1Ki = 1024).
-br, -brief
Print only basic information in a tabular format for better readability. This option is currently only sup‐
ported by ip addr show , ip link show & ip neigh show commands.
-j, -json
Output results in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
-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.
-echo Request the kernel to send the applied configuration back.
IP - COMMAND SYNTAX
OBJECT
address
- protocol (IP or IPv6) address on a device.
addrlabel
- label configuration for protocol address selection.
fou - Foo-over-UDP receive port configuration.
ila - manage identifier locator addresses (ILA).
ioam - manage IOAM namespaces and IOAM schemas.
l2tp - tunnel ethernet over IP (L2TPv3).
link - network device.
macsec - MACsec device configuration.
maddress
- multicast address.
monitor
- watch for netlink messages.
mptcp - manage MPTCP path manager.
mroute - multicast routing cache entry.
mrule - rule in multicast routing policy database.
neighbour
- manage ARP or NDISC cache entries.
netconf
- network configuration monitoring.
netns - manage network namespaces.
nexthop
- manage nexthop objects.
ntable - manage the neighbor cache's operation.
route - routing table entry.
rule - rule in routing policy database.
sr - manage IPv6 segment routing.
stats - manage and show interface statistics.
tcp_metrics/tcpmetrics
- manage TCP Metrics.
token - manage tokenized interface identifiers.
tunnel - tunnel over IP.
tuntap - manage TUN/TAP devices.
vrf - manage virtual routing and forwarding 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.
ENVIRONMENT
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
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-fou(8), ip-ioam(8), ip-l2tp(8), ip-link(8), ip-macsec(8), ip-maddress(8), ip-moni‐
tor(8), ip-mptcp(8), ip-mroute(8), ip-neighbour(8), ip-netconf(8), ip-netns(8), ip-nexthop(8), ip-ntable(8), ip-
route(8), ip-rule(8), ip-sr(8), ip-stats(8), ip-tcp_metrics(8), ip-token(8), ip-tunnel(8), ip-vrf(8), ip-xfrm(8)
IP Command reference ip-cref.ps
REPORTING BUGS
Report any bugs to the Network Developers mailing list 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
iproute2 20 Dec 2011 IP(8)