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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLES | SEE ALSO | AUTHOR | COLOPHON 

RDMA-LINK(8)                      Linux                      RDMA-LINK(8)

NAME         top

       rdma-link - rdma link configuration

SYNOPSIS         top

       rdma [ OPTIONS ] link  { COMMAND | help }

       OPTIONS := { -V[ersion] | -d[etails] }

       rdma link show [ DEV/PORT_INDEX ]

       rdma link add NAME type TYPE netdev NETDEV

       rdma link delete NAME

       rdma link help

DESCRIPTION         top

   rdma link show - display rdma link attributes
       DEV/PORT_INDEX - specifies the RDMA link to show.  If this
       argument is omitted all links are listed.

   rdma link add NAME type TYPE netdev NETDEV - add an rdma link for the
       specified type to the network device
       NAME - specifies the new name of the rdma link to add

       TYPE - specifies which rdma type to use.  Link types:

               rxe - Soft RoCE driver

               siw - Soft iWARP driver

       NETDEV - specifies the network device to which the link is bound

   rdma link delete NAME - delete an rdma link
       NAME - specifies the name of the rdma link to delete

EXAMPLES         top

       rdma link show
           Shows the state of all rdma links on the system.

       rdma link show mlx5_2/1
           Shows the state of specified rdma link.

       rdma link add rxe_eth0 type rxe netdev eth0
           Adds a RXE link named rxe_eth0 to network device eth0

       rdma link del rxe_eth0
           Removes RXE link rxe_eth0

SEE ALSO         top

       rdma(8), rdma-dev(8), rdma-resource(8), rdma-statistic(8),

AUTHOR         top

       Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>

COLOPHON         top

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iproute2                       06 Jul 2017                   RDMA-LINK(8)

Pages that refer to this page: rdma(8),  rdma-dev(8),  rdma-monitor(8),  rdma-resource(8),  rdma-statistic(8),  rdma-system(8)

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