iproute: Document the "ip link add index IDX" possibility

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@paralles.com>

iproute: Document the "ip link add index IDX" possibility
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@paralles.com>
4de8d885 · Pavel Emelyanov · Stephen Hemminger · 1c28bd59 · 4de8d885
Commit 4de8d885 authored Dec 30, 2013 by Pavel Emelyanov Committed by Stephen Hemminger Jan 09, 2014
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--- a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
+++ b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ ip-link \- network device configuration
 .br
 .RB "[ " mtu
 .IR MTU " ]"
+.RB "[ " index
+.IR IDX " ]"
 .br
 .RB "[ " numtxqueues
 .IR QUEUE_COUNT " ]"
@@ -217,6 +219,10 @@ specifies the number of transmit queues for new device.
 .BI numrxqueues " QUEUE_COUNT "
 specifies the number of receive queues for new device.

+.TP
+.BI index " IDX "
+specifies the desired index of the new virtual device. The link creation fails, if the index is busy.
+
 .TP
 VXLAN Type Support
 For a link of type