How to find IP?

kDwosk · 09-05-2003, 03:34 PM

How do i find the IP of the local computer on a network...........i tried typing ifconfig in the terminal but that did not work, do i have to to type anything before or after?

esteeven · 09-05-2003, 03:54 PM

If you mean the box that you are at, then try su followed by ifconfig. The local ip address should be there.

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so...at the command line type "su" (not inverted commas and then your password. Now type "ifconfig".

AxeZ · 09-05-2003, 04:10 PM

/sbin/ifconfig

local user probably doesn't have it in the path

Mara · 09-05-2003, 06:00 PM

Only root can use this command, so do as
esteeven suggests. You'' get something like:

Quote:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5563 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5657 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:9 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2265771 (2.1 Mb) TX bytes:844754 (824.9 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe800

IP address is in bold.

AxeZ · 09-06-2003, 06:10 AM

I just did it as regular user.
Fact is that ifconfig is NOT in ordinary users path.

axez@terminator:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:18:2F:11:BC
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:9949 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9949 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:766024 (748.0 Kb) TX bytes:766024 (748.0 Kb)

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