[Vm-dev] Finding ip address for eth0?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 26.08.2009, at 22:05, Philippe Marschall wrote:

>
> 2009/8/26 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
>>
>> Quick Unix question: How do I find out what the IP address for eth0/ 
>> eth1 is?
>> I thought NetNameResolver>>localHostAddress was supposed to return  
>> this but
>> it returns consistently 127.0.0.1 which is fine from a purity point  
>> of view
>> but utterly useless from any practical perspective ;-)
>
> I reported exactly this a while ago and was told that the problem is
> with me and not the code. Then I suggested that the code would be
> changed to directly return 127.0.0.1. That would achieve the same
> result more efficiently. Somehow that never got implemented though.

What got implemented though is a primitive to list all interfaces that  
are available. Hosts do not have IP addresses, interfaces do. And  
since hosts typically have multiple interfaces, it's not really up to  
the VM to pick one, but the application.

- Bert -