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From: leadley@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Scott Leadley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Determining one's own IP address.
Message-ID: <4429@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 89 20:48:29 GMT
References: <601@bmers58.UUCP>
Reply-To: leadley@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Scott Leadley)
Organization: University of Rochester
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In article <601@bmers58.UUCP> davem@bnr-public.UUCP () writes:
>How can one determine his own IP address without looking it up in the
>hosts file?

	Assuming (a lot of things, but primarily that) you wish to do this from
the shell command line and that you know the network interface name:

	% ifconfig de0
		   ^^^ VAX-ism, substitute the correct name here
	de0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
		inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask ffffff00 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

If you don't know what interfaces are connected to the machine try:

	% netstat -i
	Name  Mtu   Network     Address      Ipkts   Ierrs Opkts   O...
	de0   1500  x-net       x-machine    15890511 4     14812969...
	lo0   1536  127         localhost    134349  0     134349  0...
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					Scott Leadley - leadley@cc.rochester.edu