Commit 46dab6e9 authored by Williams, Mitch A's avatar Williams, Mitch A Committed by Stephen Hemminger

Update man page to indicate current options

Signed-off-by: default avatarMitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
parent 3e4f6a38
......@@ -53,7 +53,23 @@ ip \- show / manipulate routing, devices, policy routing and tunnels
.IR MTU " |"
.br
.B netns
.IR PID " }"
.IR PID " |"
.br
.B alias
.IR NAME " |"
.br
.B vf
.IR NUM " ["
.B mac
.IR LLADDR " ] ["
.B vlan
.IR VLANID " [ "
.B qos
.IR VLAN-QOS " ] ] ["
.B rate
.IR TXRATE " ]"
.BR " }"
.ti -8
.B ip link show
......@@ -822,7 +838,9 @@ display and change the state of devices.
.TP
.BI dev " NAME " (default)
.I NAME
specifies network device to operate on.
specifies network device to operate on. When configuring SR-IOV Virtual Fuction
(VF) devices, this keyword should specify the associated Physical Function (PF)
device.
.TP
.BR up " and " down
......@@ -884,7 +902,56 @@ the interface is
.TP
.BI netns " PID"
move the device to the network namespace associated with the process
.IR "PID" .
.IR "PID".
.TP
.BI alias " NAME"
give the device a symbolic name for easy reference.
.TP
.BI vf " NUM"
specify a Virtual Function device to be configured. The associated PF device
must be specified using the
.B dev
parameter.
.in +8
.BI mac " LLADDRESS"
- change the station address for the specified VF. The
.B vf
parameter must be specified.
.sp
.BI vlan " VLANID"
- change the assigned VLAN for the specified VF. When specified, all traffic
sent from the VF will be tagged with the specified VLAN ID. Incoming traffic
will be filtered for the specified VLAN ID, and will have all VLAN tags
stripped before being passed to the VF. Setting this parameter to 0 disables
VLAN tagging and filtering. The
.B vf
parameter must be specified.
.sp
.BI qos " VLAN-QOS"
- assign VLAN QOS (priority) bits for the VLAN tag. When specified, all VLAN
tags transmitted by the VF will include the specified priority bits in the
VLAN tag. If not specified, the value is assumed to be 0. Both the
.B vf
and
.B vlan
parameters must be specified. Setting both
.B vlan
and
.B qos
as 0 disables VLAN tagging and filtering for the VF.
.sp
.BI rate " TXRATE"
- change the allowed transmit bandwidth, in Mbps, for the specified VF.
Setting this parameter to 0 disables rate limiting. The
.B vf
parameter must be specified.
.in -8
.PP
.B Warning:
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