iproute2mac

CLI wrapper for basic network utilities on Mac OS X inspired with iproute2 on Linux systems - ip and bridge commands.

Provided functionality is limited and command output is not fully compatible with iproute2.

Goal of this project is to make basic network configuration/debug tasks on Mac OS X easy for admins who already use Linux systems.

For advanced usage use netstat, ifconfig, ndp, arp, route and networksetup directly.

Installation

A) Using Homebrew:

# [Optional] Install Homebrew first - see http://brew.sh for more options
$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

# Install iproute2mac
$ brew install iproute2mac

B) Manual installation:

$ curl --remote-name -L https://github.com/brona/iproute2mac/raw/master/src/ip.py
$ curl --remote-name -L https://github.com/brona/iproute2mac/raw/master/src/bridge.py
$ chmod +x ip.py bridge.py
$ mv ip.py /usr/local/bin/ip
$ mv bridge.py /usr/local/bin/bridge

Supported commands / Example usage

Goal of this utility is to provide compatible CLI with iproute2, supporting same command shortcuts and user experience.

• Help
  • ip help
  • ip link help
  • ip addr help
  • ip route help
  • ip neigh help
  • bridge help
  • bridge link help
• Link module (Interfaces)
  • List local interfaces ip link
  • Show one interface ip link show en0
  • Shutdown interface ip link set dev en0 down
  • Start interface ip link set dev en0 up
  • Set custom MAC address ip link set dev en0 address 00:12:34:45:78:90
  • Set Random MAC address ip link set en0 address random
  • Set Factory default MAC address ip link set en0 address factory
  • Set MTU ip link set dev en0 mtu 9000
• Neighbour module (ARP/NDP)
  • Show all neighbours ip neigh
  • Show all IPv4 (ARP) neighbours ip -4 neigh
  • Show all IPv6 (NDP) neighbours ip -6 neigh
  • Show all IPv4 (ARP) neighbours for a specific interface ip -4 neigh show dev en0
  • Show neighbours filtered by prefix ip -4 neigh show 192.0.2.0/24
  • IPv6 (NDP) neighbours cannot be currently shown for a specific interface
  • Flush all neighbours (IPv4 + IPv6) for a specific interface ip neigh flush dev en0
  • Flush all IPv4 (ARP) neighbours for a specific interface ip -4 neigh flush dev en0
  • IPv6 (NDP) neighbours are being flushed for all interfaces
• Address module
  • List all addresses ip addr
  • List IPv4 addresses ip -4 addr
  • List IPv6 addresses ip -6 addr
  • Add address to interface ip addr add 10.0.0.5/24 dev en0
  • Remove address to interface ip addr del 10.0.0.5 dev en0
• Route module
  • List IPv4 addresses ip route
  • List IPv6 addresses ip -6 route
  • Flush route cache (no-op on MacOS) ip route flush cache
  • Flush routes ip route flush table main
  • Get route for destination ip route get 8.8.8.8
  • Add static route ip route add 192.168.0.0/16 nexthop 10.0.0.1
  • Add default route ip route add default nexthop 10.0.0.1
  • Replace static route ip route replace 192.0.2.0/24 dev utun1
  • Remove static route ip route del 192.168.0.0/16
• Bridge module
  • List bridge interfaces bridge link
  • List one bridged interface bridge link show dev en2
• JSON output
  • List interfaces: ip -j link show
  • List addresses: ip -j addr show
  • List neighbours: ip -j neigh show
  • List routes: ip -j route show
  • List bridges (whith pretty print): bridge -j -p link show

Supported Mac OS X versions (Tested)

• macOS Sonoma 14.1.2
• macOS Sonoma 14.5

Changelog

v1.5.0

• Added -json option (Issue #49)
• Added bridge command
• Internal reworking of ip ... show functions

v1.4.2

• Ignores -color option (Issue #47, Thanks @lexhuismans)
• Accepts double dashed options, e.g. --color as well as -color
• ip route add ignores 2 additional arguments, e.g. ip r a 1.1.1.1 via 2.2.2.2 dev utun5 is interpreted as ip r a 1.1.1.1 via 2.2.2.2 (Issue #45)

v1.4.1

• Fixed ip neigh show dev en0 (Issue #43, Thanks @SimonTate)

v1.4.0

• Internal cleanup and code style changes
• Added blackhole routes ip route add blackhole 192.0.2.0/24 (Thanks @mhio)
• :warning: ip route flush cache no longer flushes anything
• ip route flush table main flushes all routes
• ip neigh show 192.0.2.0/24 filters neighbours
• Flag compatibility for -help and -Version
• Uniform matching for show command alternatives

v1.3.0

• Migrated to Python 3

v1.2.3

• Fixed ip route for Mac OS X Catalina (Thanks @jiegec)
• ip route now returns host addresses (Thanks @crvv)
• Added ip route flush cache (Thanks @npeters)
• Added ip route replace 192.0.2.0/24 dev utun1 (Thanks @npeters)
• Added ip addr add 192.0.2.1/32 peer 192.0.2.1 dev utun1 (Thanks @npeters)

v1.2.2

• Fixed handling arguments while using ip -4 (Thanks @bsholdice)
• Fixed ip help (Thanks @KireinaHoro)

v1.2.1

• Fixed error return codes and test script
• ip neigh flush now requires specific device (consistent behaviour with iproute2)

v1.2.0

• Enhanced input parsing to support arbitrary length commands (Thanks @deployable)
• Simple test script added (Thanks @deployable)
• Fixed error return codes to simulate iproute2 (At this moment help messages are inconsistently printed to stderr for all errors unlinke iproute2 behaviour)

v1.1.2

• Correctly show src for ip route get on IPv6 addresses (Thanks @codeaholics)

v1.1.1

• Added dev option to ip route add command (Thanks @ThangCZ)

v1.1.0

• Added source IP address to ip route get command
• Accepted to Homebrew master branch, tap is no longer supported

v1.0.9

• Fixed versioning

v1.0.8

• Better error handling and error messages (Thanks @rgcr)

v1.0.7

• Help messages are sent to stderr (Thanks @rgcr)

v1.0.6

• Fixed ip -6 neigh failing for N status flag

v1.0.5

• Added s shortcuts to show commands (Thanks @vmoutoussamy)

v1.0.4

• Added ip neigh flush (Thanks @ThangCZ)
• Added 'dev' option for ip neigh show and ip neigh flush

v1.0.3

• Fixed ifconfig: dev: bad value in ip addr del

v1.0.2

• Interface name is concatenated to ip addr inet rows

Authors

See AUTHORS.

Used software/code:

• macgen.py - Function for generating random MAC address
• SpoofMAC - Code for obtaining factory default MAC address for interface

License

• The MIT License (MIT)