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SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.

Known flags are: allmulti, arp, automedia, broadcast, debug, dynamic, master, multicast, pointopoint, portsel, promisc, slave, trailers, up. Prepending no to any of these flags will negate their effect.

OPTIONS¶

-a, --all

Display all available interfaces.

-A, --address=addr

Set interface address to addr.

-B, --broadcast=addr

-b, --brdaddr=addr

Set broadcast address to addr.

-d, --dstaddr=addr

-p, --peer=addr

Set destination (peer) address to addr.

--up

Activate the interface (default if address is given).

--down

Shut the interface down.

-F, --flags=flag[,flag...]

Set interface flags.

-i, --interface=name

Configure network interface name.

-l, --list

List available or selected interfaces.

-m, --netmask=mask

Set netmask to mask.

--metric=n

Set metric of interface to n.

-M, --mtu=n

Set mtu of interface to n.

--format=format

Select output format; set to 'help' for information.

-s, --short

Short output format.

-v, --verbose

Output information when configuring interface.

-?, --help

Give this help list.

--usage

Give a short usage message.

-V, --version

Print program version.

Linux-specific options:

-T, --txqlen=n

Set transmit queue length to n.