diff --git a/man/man8/ip.8 b/man/man8/ip.8
index ae018fdf..2a27a56e 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip.8
+++ b/man/man8/ip.8
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ executes specified command over all objects, it
depends if command supports this
.TP
.BR "\-c" , " -color"
-Use color output.
+Use color output. The color palette is affected by the COLORFGBG
environment variable, which typically has the form "fg;bg".
+If "bg" is set to 0-6 or 8, the dark color palette is used.
.TP
.BR "\-t" , " \-timestamp"
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 22:04:16 +0200
Roland Hopferwieser [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk
diff --git a/man/man8/ip.8 b/man/man8/ip.8
index ae018fdf..2a27a56e 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip.8
+++ b/man/man8/ip.8
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ executes specified command over all objects, it
depends if command supports this
.TP
.BR "\-c" , " -color"
-Use color output.
+Use color output. The color palette is affected by the COLORFGBG
environment variable, which typically has the form "fg;bg".
+If "bg" is set to 0-6 or 8, the dark color palette is used.
.TP
.BR "\-t" , " \-timestamp"
Your patch was damaged by the mailer you used.
Please fix and resubmit.
$ patch -p1 < ~/Downloads/iproute2-Add-information-about-COLORFGBG-to-ip.8-man-page.patch
patching file man/man8/ip.8
patch: **** malformed patch at line 23: depends if command supports this