From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 9 22:21:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 170A237B404 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:21:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.clubplus.net (mail.clubplus.net [216.191.22.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B42E43FE1 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:21:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (cust29.209.188.66.dsl.accessv.com [209.188.66.29]) by mail.clubplus.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2A6MQui028396; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 01:22:27 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h2A6Ldjd054913; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 01:21:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2A6LdAj054887; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 01:21:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: (from david@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h2A6LdT7054886; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 01:21:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 01:21:38 -0500 From: David Banning To: Michael Collette Cc: FreeBSD Mailing Lists Subject: Re: identifying my network address Message-ID: <20030310012138.A54863@skytrackercanada.com> References: <200303092130.22748.metrol@metrol.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200303092130.22748.metrol@metrol.net>; from metrol@metrol.net on Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 09:30:22PM -0800 X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.2(snapshot 20021217) (mail) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 09:30:22PM -0800, Michael Collette wrote: > David Banning wrote: > > > I am running an Xwindow on a windows box. I need a script to > > tell me what my network address is so that I can set my DISPLAY > > varible correctly eg: 192.168.1.2:0.0 > > > > Any idea what command would be useful for this purpose? > > It's ugly. It won't work if you multiple NICs. It may just work for what you > need just the same. > > echo `ifconfig | grep broadcast | cut -d" " -f2`":0.0" > > This takes the output of ifconfig and parses it just a wee bit with grep and > cut. I use something very similar to this in a script that changes my > network settings for my laptop on the fly. > > Let me know if this works for ya. Nope. ifconfig by itself does not contain the address at all, anywhere; dc0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::220:78ff:fe0e:13d6%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:20:78:0e:13:d6 media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP) status: active rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 209.188.66.29 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 209.188.66.255 inet6 fe80::248:54ff:fe8c:13e5%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 ether 00:48:54:8c:13:e5 media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP) status: active lp0: flags=8810 mtu 1500 sl0: flags=c010 mtu 552 faith0: flags=8002 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 ppp0: flags=8010 mtu 1500 tun0: flags=8051 mtu 1492 inet 209.188.66.29 --> 206.221.248.4 netmask 0xffffffff Opened by PID 6716 Thanks anyway - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message