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Local IP address - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux Tips
Local IP address
- [Instructor] When you connect a computer to a network, either through Wifi or Ethernet, the computer is assigned an address on the local network. This address allows it to communicate with other devices on the same network, either to exchange information with them or to send information which they send onto other networks through the internet. So knowing the local IP address of your system is important for troubleshooting and it's useful to know if you need to connect to a service that the system is running. On recent distros, the command we use for this is IP. IP gives us the opportunity to see a lot of information about many kinds of objects and the kind we focus on here is address information. Typing IP address or IPA shows address information about network adaptors on the system. On some systems, there will be al to of adaptors, real and virtual. So let's take a look at the output here and figure out which one has the information we need. The first entry here is the loopback…
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Disks and partitions6m 42s
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Logical volume management9m 58s
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Create a RAID array9m 10s
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Repairing a RAID array4m 44s
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Local IP address5m 15s
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Predictable network interface names4m 51s
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DNS5m 40s
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VPN1m 43s
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Exploring system hardware5m 7s
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Drivers and modules4m 16s
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Understanding QEMU and KVM2m 49s
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Creating a VM with QEMU and KVM3m 46s
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Private networking6m 37s
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Routing and forwarding4m 26s
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DHCP4m 55s
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Network troubleshooting7m 42s
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Wi-Fi on Linux4m 14s
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Set up a secure tunnel with WireGuard8m 38s
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Scanning network ports with Nmap4m 28s
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