[Leaplist] What are my local IP addresses?

[Andrew]

On Jun 29, 2007, at 1:38 PM, Phil Barnett wrote:

> On Friday 29 June 2007 06:57, Kyle Gonzales wrote:
>> If you want to see the IP addresses, with the subnet context  
>> included,
>> you can use ip addr:
>>
>> ip addr show | grep "inet" | awk -F" " '{ print $2 }'
>
> Works on RHEL, doesn't work on Fedora Core.
>
> I've never heard of that function before. Is it part of the GNU  
> toolchain?

As others pointed out, that's part of the iproute package.

Reasons that you would want to use 'ip' instead of the regular net- 
tools utilities include things like policy routing, load balancing,  
tunnel handling, and some multi-homing tricks.

Another really fun utility in there is 'tc' -- it allows you to setup  
the traffic shaping policies on the box.  That way, your interactive  
ssh traffic will get queuing priority over http images being loaded,  
for example.