ip-maddress - Man Page

multicast addresses management

Examples (TL;DR)

List multicast addresses and how many programs are subscribed to them: ip maddress
List device specific addresses: ip maddress show dev eth0
Join a multicast group statically: sudo ip maddress add 33:33:00:00:00:02 dev eth0
Leave a static multicast group: sudo ip maddress delete 33:33:00:00:00:02 dev eth0

tldr.sh

Synopsis

ip [ OPTIONS ] maddress { COMMAND | help }

ip maddress [ add | del ] MULTIADDR dev NAME

ip maddress show [ dev NAME ]

Description

maddress objects are multicast addresses.

ip maddress show - list multicast addresses

dev NAME (default)

the device name.

ip maddress add - add a multicast address

ip maddress delete - delete a multicast address

These commands attach/detach a static link-layer multicast address to listen on the interface. Note that it is impossible to join protocol multicast groups statically. This command only manages link-layer addresses.

address LLADDRESS (default): the link-layer multicast address.
dev NAME: the device to join/leave this multicast address.

Author

Original Manpage by Michail Litvak <mci@owl.openwall.com>

Referenced By

ip(8).

20 Dec 2011 iproute2 Linux