Finding IP address

[Hairybloke]

What is the best way to find my IP address on Linux?

[Bills_a_bub]

Best way? There may be no "best way", but several ways. Depends on your preferences.

These examples assume that you are using dial-up.

Try:

/sbin/ifconfig ppp0

(that's a zero at the end of ppp).

In the output look on the second line for "inet addr: ".

Or try:

tail -20 /etc/ppp/log

That will show you the last 20 lines in your ppp log, which should show you the IP address that you were assigned when you connected to your ISP.

I'm sure that there are a few more, but those should get you what you need.

[ 25 March 2001: Message edited by: Bills_a_bub ]

[penguinlinux]

hey just run the command ifconfig

this will show you the ip address you have
on your eth and also your ppp interfaces

:)

:D

[bdg1983]

Here's a script you can run which will show the dhcp assigned ip.

#!/bin/bash
# getIP.sh
# the following is one line:
IPADDR=$(/sbin/ifconfig eth0|grep "inet addr" | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print $2}')
printf "IP address: $IPADDR\n"

Create the script named ie getIP and do a 'chmod +x /pathto/getIP' and run.