Posted by Toby A Inkster on 10/28/68 12:00

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Getting the IP address is trickier: need to interrogate their NAT
> router.

Only if they use NAT. If the machine is directly routed, here's a quick
way of determining the IP address from the command line:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep -o "inet addr:[0-9\.]*" | sed 's/[^0-9\.]//g'

Where "eth0" is the interface (i.e. network card or virtual network card)
to check.

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