[olug] Unix Tip: GET YOUR IP-ADDRESS

[Eric Penne]

What is the new way of doing things?

I haven't heard about this netlink thing.

Eric


> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, David Walker wrote:
>
>> The beauty of it is that it is possible.
>>
>> Every decent operating system has guru support.
>>
>> If a user wished to know their IP address they can simply type
>> ifconfig
>
> SIGH... And here I thought this was a Linux list... ;-}
>
> BTW - ifconfig has been deprecated as a kernal IPvx interface since
> kernel 2.3.7 back in 1998 or so.
>
> Even Redhat is now using the netlink interfaces (ip and cousins)
>
> Oh - and one other bit of trivia - CIDR is standard with dotted
> decimal netmasks deprecated since 2.3.7 along with those stupid
> colonic virtual interfaces (ie: eth0:0 etc)
>
> Funny thing since RH has both DM and AC on staff that it took them so
> long to switch. Eh - I'll go back into lurk mode now...
>
>> On Thursday 20 March 2003 01:43 pm, William E. Kempf wrote:
>> > Unix Guru Universe said:
>> > > Type this simple command at the unix-prompt
>> > >
>> > > ifconfig | grep "inet addr" |  grep -v "127.0.0.1" | awk '{print
>> $2;}' |
>> > >  awk -F':' '{print $2;}'
>> >
>> > *chuckles*
>> >
>> > While as a developer I love the power behind these "little tools
>> piped together", it's exactly this sort of attitude ("Type this
>> _simple_ command", emphasis mine) which continues to lead me to think
>> Linux is for the Gurus, and not Mom and Pop.
>>
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