Subject: Re: Newbie questions
From: Jamin "W." Collins (jcollins@asgardsrealm.net)
Date: Sat Jun 16 2001 - 13:10:30 MDT
On 16 Jun 2001 11:08:09 -0700, Paul J. Lucas wrote:
> > To find the IP address supplied by your ISP, you need to figure out what
> > address is associated with your Ethernet card.
>
> If you have a dynamic IP, you don't really care or need to
> know; if you have a static IP, your ISP *must* tell you.
There are many reasons one may both "care or need to know" their dynamic IP address. The assumtion that one does not "care or need to know" their IP just because it is dynamic is incorrect. As one of the previous posters has already mentioned, ifconfig can be used to determine what your IP address is. This program most likely resides in /sbin and thus is normally not in a normal user's path. However, if you are only looking for the IP address, it can normally be executed by a normal user via /sbin/ifconfig (that is of course if it's in /sbin).
Jamin W. Collins
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