Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

Network interfaces

You can find out what IP addresses have been assigned to your computer by running ip addr or ipconfig all on Windows systems, or on a Terminal.

If we run one of these commands, we will see that the IP addresses are assigned to our device's network interfaces. On Linux, these will have names, such as eth0; on Windows, these will have phrases, such as Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection.

You will get the following output when you run the ip addr command on Linux:

You will get the following options when you run the ipconfig command on Windows:

You will get IP addresses for the interfaces in your local machine when you run ...