ip link add

ip link add

             Link types:

                     bridge - Ethernet Bridge device

                     bond - Bonding device

                     dummy - Dummy network interface

                     hsr - High-availability Seamless Redundancy device

                     ifb - Intermediate Functional Block device

                     ipoib - IP over Infiniband device

                     macvlan - Virtual interface base on link layer
                     address (MAC)

                     macvtap - Virtual interface based on link layer
                     address (MAC) and TAP.

                     vcan - Virtual Controller Area Network interface

                     vxcan - Virtual Controller Area Network tunnel
                     interface

                     veth - Virtual ethernet interface

                     vlan - 802.1q tagged virtual LAN interface

                     vxlan - Virtual eXtended LAN

                     ip6tnl - Virtual tunnel interface IPv4|IPv6 over
                     IPv6

                     ipip - Virtual tunnel interface IPv4 over IPv4

                     sit - Virtual tunnel interface IPv6 over IPv4

                     gre - Virtual tunnel interface GRE over IPv4

                     gretap - Virtual L2 tunnel interface GRE over IPv4

                     erspan - Encapsulated Remote SPAN over GRE and
                     IPv4

                     ip6gre - Virtual tunnel interface GRE over IPv6

                     ip6gretap - Virtual L2 tunnel interface GRE over
                     IPv6

                     ip6erspan - Encapsulated Remote SPAN over GRE and
                     IPv6

                     vti - Virtual tunnel interface

                     nlmon - Netlink monitoring device

                     ipvlan - Interface for L3 (IPv6/IPv4) based VLANs

                     ipvtap - Interface for L3 (IPv6/IPv4) based VLANs
                     and TAP

                     lowpan - Interface for 6LoWPAN (IPv6) over IEEE
                     802.15.4 / Bluetooth

                     geneve - GEneric NEtwork Virtualization
                     Encapsulation

                     bareudp - Bare UDP L3 encapsulation support

                     macsec - Interface for IEEE 802.1AE MAC Security
                     (MACsec)

                     vrf - Interface for L3 VRF domains

                     netdevsim - Interface for netdev API tests

                     rmnet - Qualcomm rmnet device

                     xfrm - Virtual xfrm interface

See also

• ip (command), ip link, ip link show, ip link add, ip route, ip link set, ip address show, public ip
• Linux networking: Consistent Network Device Naming (eth, ens), DPDK, Alias IP, bonding, Wlan0, ip [link, route], ifconfig netstat ss lsof ping ethtool mii-tool arping nmcli(RHEL) route networkctl, netplan, tc, networkd-dispatcher