I just installed Slackware 8.0. I selected DHCP for my netconfig option dealy. It works, i can use lynx to browse around. Is there a way though that i can figure out what IP i've managed to pull down and use?

Try
/sbin/ifconfig
this will show all the network interfaces and associated ips on your m/c
--Sarin

Thank you greatly, that worked perfectly

Log on to no-ip.com from your linux box and look for what is my ip it will tell you your ip.

If you are using dhcpcd then a file called /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth?.info should be created with all the information that was received from the dhcp server. The question mark will be replaced with the number of the interface which is receiving it's ip address with dhcp.

I usually use the following command in my scripts to get my ip:

export `grep IPADDR /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth?.info`
The ip will then be stored in the variable IPADDR.

Ofcourse that will only work if you have one interface that receives it's ip through dhcp. But you can always replace the ? with the appropriate number.

I am tried that in my .profile running ksh and it doesn't seem to
work. I put that entry in the .profile and then ran it -
it spit out all the shell variables and has that line in the
output.

grep IPADDR /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth?.info

On the command line it works fine.
What am I doing wrong or not doing.
Thanks.

Ron