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When you are on Ubuntu, how do you determine your internal IP? Ex. 192.168.0.1
I need this to setup psybnc to allow a port through my router, it needs the computer that the port wants to access... I could probably Google it but I was on the forums anyway!
I'm sorry I'm very new to Linux and still need to learn the basics.
Thanks

you open a shell and type in "ifconfig"
there you see it under eth0

daddy2k wrote:you open a shell and type in "ifconfig"
there you see it under eth0

thanks alot

Keep in mind that if you have more than one nic card in your box, you will have to look for eth1 2 etc.

daddy2k wrote:you open a shell and type in "ifconfig"
there you see it under eth0

In some distros (ie SUSE) ifconfig is not in the default path. You have to type "/sbin/ifconfig"

In slackware it's the same /sbin/ifconfig or just login as root and then ifconfig is going to work.This happens because the drectory /sbin is not in the $PATH variable.

easy way that works on most distros (definarely on ubuntu)
is type
'ip route'

and the first line ip you see if yours and the second lines ipwould be the routers.

That actually won't work on alot of distros as 'ip' is part of a (relatively) new pack of networking tools. Quite a few of the more "hard" distros don't include it as default at this stage, however its obscenely easy to install and its actually quite a good set of routing tools.

Alright thanks for all your help