[Vm-dev] Finding ip address for eth0?

[Andreas Raab]

Thanks but this is not an issue for us. We're talking about an appliance 
here, a VMware image that we ship to customers. So by definition LANG=C 
and eth0 is the default interface.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

John M McIntosh wrote:
> 
> Careful, on my macbook pro, the ethernet port is en0, which is rarely used.
> But en1 is wireless and mostly used
> so the INTERFACE=eth0 is going to be machine dependent
> 
> 
> On 26-Aug-09, at 3:15 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
>> David T. Lewis wrote:
>>> Assuming that you're not looking for an elegant solution, you could
>>> figure it out in the start script and pass it to Squeak as a command
>>> line parameter.
>>>  #!/bin/sh
>>>  INTERFACE=eth0
>>>  IPV4_ADDR=`/sbin/ifconfig $INTERFACE | grep 'inet addr' | cut -c21-34`
>>>  echo the IP address on interface $INTERFACE is $IPV4_ADDR
>>>  /usr/local/bin/squeak myimage.image $IPV4_ADDR
>>
>> Wow, without sed? I'm impressed ;-) And you know what, that's just 
>> what I'll do. Thanks for the snippet.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  - Andreas
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