Finding my WLAN IP address.

[steve]

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Dotan Cohen wrote:
| I know to find my public IP address from http://simplesniff.com but
| how can I check my WLAN IP address? On this particular WLAN all
| clients start with 192.xx.xx.xx however I don't see that number
| anywhere:
|
| feisty at feisty-laptop:~$ ifconfig
| eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:C5:C8:13:D1
|           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
|           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
|           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
|           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
|           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
|           Interrupt:22
|
| eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:DE:98:C7:34
|           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
|           RX packets:0 errors:92 dropped:4554 overruns:0 frame:0
|           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
|           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
|           RX bytes:11343827 (10.8 MiB)  TX bytes:2090090 (1.9 MiB)
|           Interrupt:16 Memory:efcff000-efcfffff
|
| eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:C5:C8:13:D1
|           inet addr:169.254.8.89  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
|           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
|           Interrupt:22
|

according to this your connected via eth0 ethernet.  not wireless.
unplug and give ifdown eth0 and then ifup ath0 a shot, see what happens.







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Steve Reilly

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