[ale] IP- was Re: RHEL Questions

Joe Knapka jknapka at kneuro.net
Mon Nov 15 14:22:19 EST 2010


Two things about docs for "ip":

1) http://lartc.org has lots of yummy stuff about ip and iptables.
It's a bit dated but still mostly relevant.

2) Just adding "help" to the end of any ip command line (eg "ip addr
add help", "ip route help") will often give you enough clue to figure
out what to do next. Just "ip help" will give you the basic syntax and
an overview of all ip functionality.

-- JK


On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/2010 12:09 AM, Michael Trausch wrote:
>> Indeed that is correct. The 'ip' tool is an excellent management utility
>> and for anyone doing anything with networking is highly recommended
>> learning. The things that it can do compared to route and ifconfig are
>> just totally awesome. Multiple rule-driven routing tables, easy tunnel
>> creation, no arbitrary limits on the number of addresses that it can
>> display, and the ability to assign multiple IP addresses to a single
>> interface without aliased interfaces, among others...
> is it fair to say, that anything route could do, ip can also do just by
> phrasing it:
> ip route ...
> ??
>
> I wish they had put a few examples in the man pages..
> can you provide some examples of OTHER things it can do besides ip route?
>
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