[Gllug] "ip" command

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Fri Feb 3 13:45:01 UTC 2006


On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 01:17:56PM +0000, Richard wrote:
> 
> Anyone know what the "ip" command is?  All the Xen scripts seem to use
> it.  Stuff like:
> 
>     if ip addr show dev ${dst} | egrep -q '^ *inet ' ; then
>         return
>     fi
> 
> Rich.

It's a networking swiss army knife.  Does the job of ifconfig and route
(much more flexibily than either) and a range of other things like
policy routing.  Indispensible tool for me.


-- 
Bruce

If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would be too
simple to understand it.
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