Newbie IP question

[AnonProgrammer]

How do you

a) see what your current IP is
b) change that IP

Thanks.

[Molecule Man]

ifconfig notice no options, it will give a list of netowrk connections that are up and running, at the very least you should see lo and probably eth0 or ppp0.

ifconfig eth0 ipaddress to manually set the address for eth0, if you want to change a different adapter then replace eth0 with the appropriate device. I don't advise doing so with a ppp adapter as that is usually assigned by your isp.

[AnonProgrammer]

Thanks,
But what about changing the Mask?

[PLBlaze]

This is an example see Shad's post ealier ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

Where 192... and 255... is your desired settings.