interesting /lib/bridge-utils/ifupdown.sh ip l[ink] l[ist] show links (with mac addresses) d[elete] wireless https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/558839/unable-to-delete-virtual-network-interface-on-linux sudo iw dev del a[ddress] view ip address[es] -4 a show ipv4 addresses only a[ssign] assign address ip -4 a add 192.168.1.12 dev eth0 s[how] ip -4 a show dev eth0 scope global d[elete] https://serverfault.com/questions/486872/remove-ip-with-ip-command-in-linux https://www.baeldung.com/linux/remove-ip-interface sudo ip a del fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 dev vmnet8 l[ink] l[ist] default d[elete] ??? sudo ip link delete type bridge s[et] ip link set $interfacename down n[eighbour] s[how] man ip-neighbour ??? arp-cache ip netns network namespaces (for virt-n) ip netns add development add a new network namespace ip route view the routing table note: we can change the metric for each row of this table ip route del 192.168.2.0/24 dev eth0 delete the roote ip route add 192.168.2.0/24 dev eth0 metric 10 add... route -n view the "Kernel IP routing table" ls -l /sys/class/net ... vmnet1 -> ../../devices/virtual/net/vmnet1 vmnet8 -> ../../devices/virtual/net/vmnet8 ls -la /sys/devices/virtual/net ... vmnet1 vmnet8 ls -la /sys/devices/virtual/net/vmnet1 sudo nmcli connection show sudo nmcli connection delete sudo ip a del x.x.x.x/23 vmnet8 sudo ip a del fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 dev vmnet8 sudo ip link set vmnet8 down uninstall vmplayer only - helps here