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Command Sets for Command Line Interface

device add <i/f> <type> [<file>] [mtu <size>] [<IP address>] device delete <i/f>

device flush

Description:

Displays the interfaces that IP is configured to use, or adds an interface to the configuration, or deletes an interface, or all interfaces, from the configuration. However, the commands to change the configuration do not take effect immediately (except when the “device add” command is run at start-up from the initialisation file). It is necessary to save the configuration (e.g. with “ip config save”) and restart the system (e.g. with “ip restart”) before they take effect. “device” will display both the current interfaces and those that have been configured but are not yet in effect. (Other commands apply only to the devices in effect, rather than to those configured; when adding a device, for example, one may need to issue the “device add” command, then the “config save” and reboot, then issue any other configuration commands that depend on the existence of the device, and then “config save” again.)

“<i/f>” is an arbitrary label for the interface, which is used in referring to it in subsequent commands. (It is often chosen to be the same as “<type>”, though this is perhaps slightly confusing.) “<type>” specifies the class of interface: Ethernet-like, IP-over-ATM, or loopback. For an Ethernet-like or IP-over-ATM interface, “<file>” specifies the file name that will be opened to access the underlying device. For a loopback interface, “<file>” is not used, and can just be specified as “-“ or omitted altogether.

Several different values of “<type>” specify the same class of interface; they differ in that each implies a different default value for “<file>”. As a result, for the most common interface configurations, “<file>” can be omitted, and one need only specify the appropriate value of “<type>”. The supported values for “<type>” are

Class

<type>

Default file

Ethernet

ether

//nice or

 

 

//ethernet or

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