Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Adding examples in ip man page on basic use of the ip command.

From: Alex Juncu <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:00:54 +0200

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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.
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