Determining one's own IP address.

[Brian V. Smith]

In article <4429 at ur-cc.UUCP> leadley at uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Scott Leadley) writes:
< In article <601 at bmers58.UUCP> davem at 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
[ more involved stuff deleted ]

If you have only one interface, how about:  arp `hostname`

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Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith at lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL, these non-opinions are all mine.