Find Your Internal IP in Ubuntu
If you are on a computer running Ubuntu Linux OS and want to find out the IP of that computer, here's how...
Steps
- From the command line, at the prompt, type the following command 'ifconfig'.
- This will list each network device on that computer.
- If the computer is connected to the network with a wire, the port you are interested in will be listed as "eth"[followed by something]. If you are connected by wifi, it will be listed differently.
- The 'lo' is the 'localhost' and should always be 127.0.0.1.
- Find the computer's IP address by looking for a line similar to this: inet addr:192.168.1.13
- An IP address starting with 192.168.1. is an internal network. If the first two sets of 3 numbers for your IP address are not 192.168, then you are more than likely looking at the actual IP address assigned to that computer by an 'internet' dns server.
Tips
- To open a terminal window, right-click on the desktop and select 'terminal', otherwise, you can get to it by clicking on the 'menu', followed by 'accessories' and lastly 'terminal'. Alternatively, you can press "Ctrl+T".
- To exit the terminal, type 'exit' at the prompt.
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