On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 01:53:11PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote:
|
| Earlier, I was looking at old threads in my mail archive and found a
| neat way to get the IP address from a shell script, but in trying it I
| noticed - hey that's *not* my IP address! I've had static IP here on a
| DSL line since December 2000, and my IP address has always been the
| same.
FYI an interface can have more than one address associated with it.
Also, the 'ip' command (from the iproute) package pretty much
supersedes 'ifconfig'.
| Here's what 'ifconfig eth0' reports currently:
|
| dfox@m206-157:~$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0
| eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:94:B7:53:84
| inet addr:169.254.162.234 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0
FWIW, 196.254.0.0/16 is the prefix Windows assigns to an interface if
it fails to receive a response from a DHCP server. It is reserved as
being unroutable and essentially "invalid".
-D
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