From: Alex Juncu <ajuncu@ixiacom•com>
To: <netdev@vger•kernel.org>, <shemminger@vyatta•com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Adding examples in ip man page on basic use of the ip command.
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:00:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECE31F6.4070002@ixiacom.com> (raw)
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man/man8/ip.8 | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man8/ip.8 b/man/man8/ip.8
index a20eca7..99c8953 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip.8
+++ b/man/man8/ip.8
@@ -2855,6 +2855,49 @@ can be
.SS ip xfrm monitor - state monitoring for xfrm objects
The xfrm objects to monitor can be optionally specified.
+.SH EXAMPLES
+.LP
+To turn on an interface:
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip link set up dev eth0
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+To add an IPv4 address to an interface:
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip address add 141.85.37.42/24 dev eth0
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+To add a default route in the IPv4 routing table using a next hop IP
address:
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip route add default via 141.85.37.1
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+Equivalent ways of listing address information for all the interfaces:
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip addr show
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip a s
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip a
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+
.SH HISTORY
.B ip
was written by Alexey N. Kuznetsov and added in Linux 2.2.
--
1.7.4.1
next reply other threads:[~2011-11-24 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-24 12:00 Alex Juncu [this message]
2011-11-24 19:12 ` [PATCH 1/1] Adding examples in ip man page on basic use of the ip command Ben Hutchings
2011-11-29 1:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
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