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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute: Document the "ip link add index IDX"
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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 22:43:02 -0800
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On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:55:17 +0400
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@paralles.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
> index 3986a5a..94d07fc 100644
> --- a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
> +++ b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
> @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ ip-link \- network device configuration
>  .br
>  .RB "[ " mtu
>  .IR MTU " ]"
> +.RB "[ " index
> +.IR IDX " ]"
>  .br
>  .RB "[ " numtxqueues
>  .IR QUEUE_COUNT " ]"
> @@ -218,6 +220,10 @@ specifies the number of transmit queues for new device.
>  specifies the number of receive queues for new device.
>  
>  .TP
> +.BI index " IDX "
> +specifies the desired index of the new virtual device. The link creation fails, if the index is busy.
> +
> +.TP
>  VXLAN Type Support
>  For a link of type 
>  .I VXLAN

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