-h
Print out a help summary.
-e
Test to see if the interface exists, exit nonzero if it
does not.
-p
Prints out the whole configuration of the
interface.
-pe
Prints "yes" or "no" if the interface
exists or not.
-pa
Prints the IPv4 address of the interface.
-pn
Prints the netmask of the interface.
-pN
Prints the network address of the interface.
-pb
Prints the broadcast address of the interface.
-pm
Prints the MTU of the interface.
Following options are Linux only.
-ph
Prints the hardware address of the interface. Exit with a
failure exit code if there is not hardware address for the given network
interface.
-pf
Prints the flags of the interface.
-si
Prints out all the input statistics of the
interface.
-sip
Prints the number of input packets.
-sib
Prints the number of input bytes.
-sie
Prints the number of input errors.
-sid
Prints the number of dropped input packets.
-sif
Prints the number of input fifo overruns.
-sic
Print the number of compressed input packets.
-sim
Prints the number of input multicast packets.
-so
Prints out all the output statistics of the
interface.
-sop
Prints the number of output packets.
-sob
Prints the number of output bytes.
-soe
Prints the number of output errors.
-sod
Prints the number of dropped output packets.
-sof
Prints the number of output fifo overruns.
-sox
Print the number of output collisions.
-soc
Prints the number of output carrier losses.
-som
Prints the number of output multicast packets.
-bips
Prints the number of bytes of incoming traffic measured
in one second.
-bops
Prints the number of bytes of outgoing traffic measured
in one second.