Finding my WLAN IP address.

[Dotan Cohen]

On 19/03/2008, steve <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> 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.
>

Nope, nothing was plugged into the machine except the power cable when
that was taken. No ethernet.

Dotan Cohen

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