From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Juncu 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 Message-ID: <4ECE31F6.4070002@ixiacom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: , Return-path: Received: from 207.47.100.214.static.nextweb.net ([207.47.100.214]:1592 "EHLO ixqw-mail-out.ixiacom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753789Ab1KXMGW (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:06:22 -0500 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --- 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