On Thursday 21 June 2001 14:56, Terry wrote:
> I'm curious ..
>
> How can I determine what my IP address is from my local machine? Is
> there a command similar to M$'s "IPCONFIG" command?
>
> Thanks!
type ifconfig as root and you should get something like this:
[root@alpha1 jeff]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:0D:F2:BF
inet addr:192.168.0.11 Bcast:192.168.0.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:375060 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:339800 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:7 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:473529387 (451.5 Mb) TX bytes:24387955 (23.2 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec00
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:664 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:664 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:62000 (60.5 Kb) TX bytes:62000 (60.5 Kb)
pretty awesome looking. eth0 is my ethernet card and lo is my
'loopback' so i can ping myself.
you can also use ifconfig to set the properties of your network card.
to do so, i would simply type (using the example above):
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
as long as i have the proper module (aka driver) loaded for my ethernet
card, i should be able to start pinging other computers on the
network...regardless of what OS they're running.
good luck and don't forget about http://www.linuxdoc.org/ !!!
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