How to Check an IP Address, Routes and links

To get the depth information of your network interfaces like IP Address, MAC Address information, use the following command as shown below.


# ip addr show


$ sudo ip addr show

]# ip addr show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:0c:29:44:43:24 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 216.xx.xx.xx/24 brd 216.xx.xx.255 scope global eth0
    inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe44:4324/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever


# ip route show
216.xx.xxx.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 216.xx.xxx.xxx
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0  scope link  metric 1002
default via 216.xx.xxx.1 dev eth0

#  ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:0c:29:44:43:24 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

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How to Check an IP Address, Routes and links

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