Groups > linux.debian.user > #205549

Re: get my ip address

From	tony <lists@vanderhoff.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: get my ip address
Date	2019-02-20 14:00 +0100
Message-ID	<xtzDH-1nw-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References	(1 earlier) <xtflD-6tn-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <xtfOG-6CI-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <xtgB4-772-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <xtxse-bC-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <xtzaG-1dR-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw

On 20/02/2019 13:24, Dan Ritter wrote:
> tony wrote: 
>> This thread has now drifted from my asking whether there was any way of
>> interrogating the hardware to obtain the current IP6 address of host -
>> apparently not 
> 
> The hardware doesn't know IP addresses. The kernel knows those.
> 
> $ ip -6 a show eth0
> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 state UP
> qlen 1000
>     inet6 2001:470:1e07:ff7:d63d:7eff:fe93:e318/64 scope global
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>     inet6 fe80::d63d:7eff:fe93:e318/64 scope link
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> 
> $ ip -6 r show | grep eth0
> 2001:470:1e07:ff7::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256  pref
> medium
> fe80::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256  pref medium
> 
> Tra-la.
> 
> Didn't you get this answer before?
> 
> -dsr-
> 

Many times.

Thread

get my ip address tony <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2019-02-15 11:40 +0100
  Re: get my ip address <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-15 11:50 +0100
  Re: get my ip address Markus Schönhaber <debian-user@list-post.mks-mail.de> - 2019-02-15 12:10 +0100
    Re: get my ip address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-15 17:00 +0100
      Re: get my ip address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-16 01:00 +0100
        Re: get my ip address John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2019-02-16 03:20 +0100
          Re: get my ip address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-16 06:30 +0100
            Re: get my ip address John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2019-02-17 05:00 +0100
              Re: get my ip address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-20 05:40 +0100
      Re: get my ip address tony <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2019-02-16 11:20 +0100
        Re: get my ip address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-20 05:40 +0100
  Re: get my ip address Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-02-19 16:20 +0100
    Re: get my ip address tony <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2019-02-19 16:50 +0100
      Re: get my ip address Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-02-19 17:40 +0100
        Re: get my ip address tony <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2019-02-19 18:10 +0100
        Re: get my ip address Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-02-19 18:10 +0100
        Re: get my ip address tony <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2019-02-20 11:40 +0100
          Re: get my ip address Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-02-20 13:30 +0100
            Re: get my ip address tony <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2019-02-20 14:00 +0100
  Re: get my ip address Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2019-02-28 15:40 +0100

csiph-web