Iproute2:ip
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ip is a command on the Linux operating system for querying and configuring IP-related information at the network manager daemon level.
Utilities obsoleted by iproute2
The ip command is a basic command that can query a wide range of networking information on a computer, such as links, routes, and ip addresses.
| Legacy utility | Replacement command | Note |
| ip addr, ip link, ip -s | Address and link configuration | |
| ip route | Routing tables | |
| arp | ip neigh | Neighbors |
| iptunnel | ip tunnel | Tunnels |
| nameif | ifrename, ip link set name | Rename network interfaces |
| ipmaddr | ip maddr | Multicast |
| ip -s, ss, ip route | Show various networking statistics | |
| brctl | bridge | Handle bridge addresses and devices |