IP\-ADDRESS
Section: Linux (8)
Updated: 20 Dec 2011
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NAME
ip-address - protocol address management
SYNOPSIS
ip
[ OPTIONS ]
address
{ COMMAND |
help }
ip address { add | change | replace }
IFADDR dev IFNAME
[ LIFETIME ] [ CONFFLAG-LIST ]
ip address del
IFADDR dev IFNAME [ mngtmpaddr ]
ip address { save | flush } [ dev
IFNAME ] [
scope
SCOPE-ID ] [
to
PREFIX ] [ FLAG-LIST ] [
label
PATTERN ] [ up ]
ip address [ show [ dev
IFNAME ] [
scope
SCOPE-ID ] [
to
PREFIX ] [ FLAG-LIST ] [
label
PATTERN ] [
master
DEVICE ] [
type
TYPE ] [
vrf
NAME ] [
up ] ]
ip address { showdump | restore }
IFADDR := PREFIX | ADDR
peer
PREFIX [
broadcast
ADDR ] [
anycast
ADDR ] [
label
LABEL ] [
scope
SCOPE-ID ]
SCOPE-ID :=
[ host | link | global |
NUMBER ]
FLAG-LIST := [ FLAG-LIST ] FLAG
FLAG :=
[ permanent | dynamic | secondary | primary |
[-]tentative | [-]deprecated | [-]dadfailed |
temporary |
CONFFLAG-LIST ]
CONFFLAG-LIST := [ CONFFLAG-LIST ] CONFFLAG
CONFFLAG :=
[ home | mngtmpaddr | nodad | noprefixroute | autojoin ]
LIFETIME := [
valid_lft LFT
] [ preferred_lft
LFT ]
LFT := [
forever |
SECONDS ]
TYPE := [
bridge |
bridge_slave |
bond |
bond_slave |
can |
dummy |
hsr |
ifb |
ipoib |
macvlan |
macvtap |
vcan |
veth |
vlan |
vxlan |
ip6tnl |
ipip |
sit |
gre |
gretap |
ip6gre |
ip6gretap |
vti |
vrf |
nlmon |
ipvlan |
lowpan |
geneve |
macsec ]
DESCRIPTION
The
address
is a protocol (IPv4 or IPv6) address attached
to a network device. Each device must have at least one address
to use the corresponding protocol. It is possible to have several
different addresses attached to one device. These addresses are not
discriminated, so that the term
alias
is not quite appropriate for them and we do not use it in this document.
The
ip address
command displays addresses and their properties, adds new addresses
and deletes old ones.
ip address add - add new protocol address.
- dev IFNAME
-
the name of the device to add the address to.
- local ADDRESS (default)
-
the address of the interface. The format of the address depends
on the protocol. It is a dotted quad for IP and a sequence of
hexadecimal halfwords separated by colons for IPv6. The
ADDRESS
may be followed by a slash and a decimal number which encodes
the network prefix length.
- peer ADDRESS
-
the address of the remote endpoint for pointopoint interfaces.
Again, the
ADDRESS
may be followed by a slash and a decimal number, encoding the network
prefix length. If a peer address is specified, the local address
cannot have a prefix length. The network prefix is associated
with the peer rather than with the local address.
- broadcast ADDRESS
-
the broadcast address on the interface.
It is possible to use the special symbols
'+'
and
'-'
instead of the broadcast address. In this case, the broadcast address
is derived by setting/resetting the host bits of the interface prefix.
- label LABEL
-
Each address may be tagged with a label string.
In order to preserve compatibility with Linux-2.0 net aliases,
this string must coincide with the name of the device or must be prefixed
with the device name followed by colon.
- scope SCOPE_VALUE
-
the scope of the area where this address is valid.
The available scopes are listed in file
/etc/iproute2/rt_scopes.
Predefined scope values are:
global
- the address is globally valid.
site
- (IPv6 only, deprecated) the address is site local, i.e. it is
valid inside this site.
link
- the address is link local, i.e. it is valid only on this device.
host
- the address is valid only inside this host.
- valid_lft LFT
-
the valid lifetime of this address; see section 5.5.4 of
RFC 4862. When it expires, the address is removed by the kernel.
Defaults to
forever.
- preferred_lft LFT
-
the preferred lifetime of this address; see section 5.5.4
of RFC 4862. When it expires, the address is no longer used for new
outgoing connections. Defaults to
forever.
- home
-
(IPv6 only) designates this address the "home address" as defined in
RFC 6275.
- mngtmpaddr
-
(IPv6 only) make the kernel manage temporary addresses created from this one as
template on behalf of Privacy Extensions (RFC3041). For this to become active,
the use_tempaddr sysctl setting has to be set to a value greater than
zero. The given address needs to have a prefix length of 64. This flag allows
to use privacy extensions in a manually configured network, just like if
stateless auto-configuration was active.
- nodad
-
(IPv6 only) do not perform Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4862) when
adding this address.
- noprefixroute
-
Do not automatically create a route for the network prefix of the added
address, and don't search for one to delete when removing the address. Changing
an address to add this flag will remove the automatically added prefix route,
changing it to remove this flag will create the prefix route automatically.
- autojoin
-
Joining multicast groups on Ethernet level via
ip maddr
command does not work if connected to an Ethernet switch that does IGMP
snooping since the switch would not replicate multicast packets on ports that
did not have IGMP reports for the multicast addresses.
Linux VXLAN interfaces created via
ip link add vxlan
have the
group
option that enables them to do the required join.
Using the
autojoin
flag when adding a multicast address enables similar functionality for
Openvswitch VXLAN interfaces as well as other tunneling mechanisms that need to
receive multicast traffic.
ip address delete - delete protocol address
Arguments:
coincide with the arguments of
ip addr add.
The device name is a required argument. The rest are optional.
If no arguments are given, the first address is deleted.
ip address show - look at protocol addresses
- dev IFNAME (default)
-
name of device.
- scope SCOPE_VAL
-
only list addresses with this scope.
- to PREFIX
-
only list addresses matching this prefix.
- label PATTERN
-
only list addresses with labels matching the
PATTERN.
PATTERN
is a usual shell style pattern.
- master DEVICE
-
only list interfaces enslaved to this master device.
- vrf NAME
-
only list interfaces enslaved to this vrf.
- type TYPE
-
only list interfaces of the given type.
Note that the type name is not checked against the list of supported types -
instead it is sent as-is to the kernel. Later it is used to filter the returned
interface list by comparing it with the relevant attribute in case the kernel
didn't filter already. Therefore any string is accepted, but may lead to empty
output.
- up
-
only list running interfaces.
- dynamic and permanent
-
(IPv6 only) only list addresses installed due to stateless
address configuration or only list permanent (not dynamic)
addresses.
- tentative
-
(IPv6 only) only list addresses which have not yet passed duplicate
address detection.
- -tentative
-
(IPv6 only) only list addresses which are not in the process of
duplicate address detection currently.
- deprecated
-
(IPv6 only) only list deprecated addresses.
- -deprecated
-
(IPv6 only) only list addresses not being deprecated.
- dadfailed
-
(IPv6 only) only list addresses which have failed duplicate
address detection.
- -dadfailed
-
(IPv6 only) only list addresses which have not failed duplicate
address detection.
- temporary
-
(IPv6 only) only list temporary addresses.
- primary and secondary
-
only list primary (or secondary) addresses.
ip address flush - flush protocol addresses
This command flushes the protocol addresses selected by some criteria.
This command has the same arguments as
show except that type and master selectors are not supported.
Another difference is that it does not run when no arguments are given.
Warning:
This command and other
flush
commands are unforgiving. They will cruelly purge all the addresses.
With the
-statistics
option, the command becomes verbose. It prints out the number of deleted
addresses and the number of rounds made to flush the address list.
If this option is given twice,
ip address flush
also dumps all the deleted addresses in the format described in the
previous subsection.
EXAMPLES
ip address show
-
Shows IPv4 and IPv6 addresses assigned to all network interfaces. The 'show'
subcommand can be omitted.
ip address show up
-
Same as above except that only addresses assigned to active network interfaces
are shown.
ip address show dev eth0
-
Shows IPv4 and IPv6 addresses assigned to network interface eth0.
ip address add 2001:0db8:85a3::0370:7334/64 dev eth1
-
Adds an IPv6 address to network interface eth1.
ip address delete 2001:0db8:85a3::0370:7334/64 dev eth1
-
Delete the IPv6 address added above.
ip address flush dev eth4 scope global
-
Removes all global IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from device eth4. Without 'scope
global' it would remove all addresses including IPv6 link-local ones.
SEE ALSO
ip(8)
AUTHOR
Original Manpage by Michail Litvak <
mci@owl.openwall.com>
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
-
- ip address add - add new protocol address.
-
- ip address delete - delete protocol address
-
- ip address show - look at protocol addresses
-
- ip address flush - flush protocol addresses
-
- EXAMPLES
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- SEE ALSO
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- AUTHOR
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