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Old 06-24-2007
How to view my IP
I run Ubuntu server 7.04, to learn some *nix. I set up LAMP, DNS and FTP but I don't know how to view my ip. now I tried ifconfig but that didnt tell me what I wanted to know.

so by what way can I do this without a gui and a website like ipchicken?
# 2  
Old 06-24-2007
What did ifconfig tell you? Can you please quote the output?
# 3  
Old 06-24-2007
eth0

Link encap:ethern3t
inet addr:192.168.2.2 Bcast: 192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::201:2ff:fe03:405/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU: 1500 Metric:1
...

Hop this is enough.
I have it connected and sharing internet with my mac if that helps
# 4  
Old 06-25-2007
Isn't this the IP?

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Originally Posted by blowFish@ubuntu
eth0
inet addr:192.168.2.2 Bcast: 192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
# 5  
Old 06-25-2007
oops... Thats there because of my router... Haven't gone into net+ study yet so I don't understand how the router manages the IP from my ISP.

Im guessing that the router changes the IP somehow for each computer on the network?
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Old 06-25-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by blowFish@ubuntu
oops... Thats there because of my router... Haven't gone into net+ study yet so I don't understand how the router manages the IP from my ISP.

Im guessing that the router changes the IP somehow for each computer on the network?
I suggest you read up on

DHCP - this is typically how an ADSL router will allocate addresses

NAT - how the router will change addresses between local and internet domains

DNS - how name mapping works, and that the ADSL router may act as a DNS proxy
Last edited by porter; 06-25-2007 at 02:32 PM..
# 7  
Old 06-25-2007
ifconfig shows the actual IP assigned to your interface. So if your router performs NAT, it is natural that you see private IPs on your system. As for the IP address at the router, normally a host in the network will not know about that address at all, because it will be replaced as part of NAT at the router.
 
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