Local IP address?

[Gavin Costello]

On 01-Feb-2006 10:46, Dave M G wrote:
> Ubuntu Users,
> 
> This seems to be one of those questions so simple that no one feels the 
> need to provide the information.
> 
> I want to know how to be able to find out what my *local* IP address is. 
> I have a router which automatically assigns an IP address to each 
> computer hooked into it. I know my computer is in the range of 
> 192.168.0.???. But the last number is something between 1 and 4, and I'm 
> not sure what.
> 
> I've looked around on the net and I can easily find out my address as 
> seen from out on the internet, some completely random, dynamically 
> number assigned at my Internet Provider. But that's not what I need to know.
> 
> I need to know exactly what my LAN IP address is so that I can assign 
> port forwarding to my computer.
> 
> So, how do I do that?
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I use the following line to find my local IP address (whether wireless
or wired):

ip -4 addr |grep "inet" | grep "eth" | awk '{print $2}' | cut -d '/' -f 1

HTH,

Gavin.
-- 
Gavin Costello
gavcos at gmail.com
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