address_family
               Specifies the protocol family for which to report the
               configuration details.

               The following table lists valid values for address_
               family:
               Address Type    Value

               IPv4            inet
               IPv6            inet6

               When changing an interface configuration, if the
               address family is not inet, you must specify an address
               family, which may alter the interpretation of any
               parameters that follow. You must specify an address
               family because an interface can receive transmissions
               in different protocols, each of which may require a
               separate naming scheme.

    address    Specifies the network address of the interface being
               configured. For the inet address family, the address
               argument is either a hostname or an Internet address in
               the standard dotted-decimal notation with or without
               the optional Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR)
               bitmask (/bitmask). If using the bitmask argument,
               do not use the netmask parameter.

               For the inet6 address family, the address argument
               is either a host name or the 128-bit IPv6 address, as
               follows:

               x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x

               In this format, each x is the hexadecimal value of
               a 16-bit portion of the address. An IPv6 address
               typically consists of a 64-bit prefix followed by a
               64-bit interface identifier. See the HP TCP/IP Services
               for OpenVMS Guide to IPv6 manual for more information
               on IPv6 addresses.

    ip6prefix
               Specifies that the address argument is an IPv6 prefix
               and that the interface identifier is to be appended to
               it to create a 128-bit IPv6 address when configuring an
               address on the interface.

    interface identifier
               Identifies an interface on a subnet, and is typically
               the interface's link-layer address. Most prefixes are
               required to have 64-bit interface identifiers. For
               48-bit MAC addresses, the interface identifier is
               created by inserting the hexadecimal values of 0xFF
               and 0xFE in the middle of the address and inverting
               the universal/local bit (bit 7) in the resulting
               64-bit address. For example, the 48-bit MAC address
               0:0:f8:23:10:f3 becomes the 64-bit interface identifier
               2:0:f8:ff:fe:23:10:f3.

    dest_address
               Specifies the address of the correspondent on the
               remote end of a point-to-point link.