ip

Question 1

ip

Answer 1

Show / manipulate routing, network devices, interfaces and tunnels.

Question 2

ip [OPTIONS]

• h, -human, -human-readable
• b, -batch <filename></filename>
• force, Don’t terminate ip on errors in batch mode.
• s, -stats, -statistics, Output more information.
• d, -details, Output more detailed info.
• l, -loops <count>, Specify max loops the ip address flush logic will attempt.</count>

Answer 2

• f, -family <family>, Specifies the protocol family to use:</family>
• 4 shortcut for -family inet.
• 6 shortcut for -family inet6.
• B shortcut for -family bridge.
• D shortcut for -family decnet.
• I shortcut for -family ipx.
• M shortcut for -family mpls.
• 0 shortcut for -family link.

Question 3

ip [OPTIONS]

• o, -oneline, Output each record on a single line.
• r, -resolve, Use the system’s name resolver to print DNS names.
• n, -netns <netns>, Switches ip to the specified network namespace NETNS.</netns>
• a, -all, Executes command over all objects.
• c[color][={always,auto,never}]
• t, -timestamp, Timestamp when using monitor.

Answer 3

-ts, -tshort, Shorter timestamp format.

rc, rcvbuf<size>, Set the netlink socket receive buffer size.</size>

• iec, Print human readable rates in IEC units.
• br, -brief, Print basic info.
• j, -json, Output json
• p, -pretty, Adds indentation for readability.

Question 4

IP [OBJECT]

address - protocol address on device (IP or IPv6).

addrlabel - label configuration for protocol address.

l2tp - tunnel ethernet over IP (L2TPv3).

link - network device.

maddress - multicast address.

mroute - multicast routing cache entry.

neighbour - manage ARP or NDISC cache entries.

netns - manage network namespaces.

Answer 4

ntable - manage the neighbors cache’s operation.

route - routing table entry.

rule - rule in routing policy database.

tcp_metrices/tcpmetrics - manage TCP Metrics.

token - manage tokenized interface identifiers.

tunnel - tunnel over IP.

tuntap - manage TUNTAP devices.

xfrm - manage IPSec policies.