[Gllug] "ip" command

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Fri Feb 3 14:17:10 UTC 2006


On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 01:45:01PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> 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.

Thanks to everyone.  iproute it is.

Rich.

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