BusyBox Help, ip Command

Question

I'm using a Google phone running Android, and I need to figure out how to use the terminal's 'ip' command.

I found out that Android uses BusyBox in its terminal, but I can't find any help or tutorials or any information regarding it other than the basic information given in the terminal help. Can anyone point me to a site that would give me more information on how to use the commands, or tell me how to use the 'ip' command if you are familiar with it?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Busy box is just an implementation of the standard Unix command line utilities any man page on ip will work. You should be able to google man ip. Also busybox's website has a full manual for what it supports.

Answer 2

Here is the BusyBox usage information, for starters, and here is a full Linux man page. Note that the BusyBox implementation can be expected to be "bare bones", i.e. not as fully featured.

Answer 3

ip command does not seem to be available on the phone, and the device does not use BusyBox (it does use toolbox for commands such as cat, chmod, etc though).

Depending on what you are trying to achieve, you may consider using route, netcfg or ifconfig.

This answer applies to the official Cupcake branch of Android OS and Google Android Dev Phone 1.

If you are running some custom distribution, then regular Linux ip command from BusyBox may apply.