Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 11/11/77 12:00

Toby A Inkster wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Toby A Inkster wrote:
>>
>>> Only if they use NAT.
>> Look at the title of this post, numbskull. "Finding out IP Address
>> behind NAT"
>
> Yeah, I only noticed the title of the thread after posting. The body of
> the OP's message didn't mention NAT at all.
>
> Nonetheless the technique which you snipped is fairly useful for people
> who need to determine the IP address of a machine where NAT is not a
> consideration:
>
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep -o "inet addr:[0-9\.]*" | sed 's/[^0-9\.]//g'
>
Sure, but so what? its a trivial excercise to find out the configured IP
address on any machine.

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