Comments on: Get your LAN IP Address in Mac OS X

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:53:59 +0000

Hello guys..

my mac..works noramlly on wifi at home..i bought a adsl voucher.my pc can access the internet but my mac cant..what is the problem?

By: s

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:23:19 +0000

Would love information on ho to set up a LAN!

By: Vijay Kumar

Vijay Kumar — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:11:31 +0000

There are probably a million ways to get this info, but what the author provided is terse and easy to understand. Thank you Manish.

By: clattr

clattr — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:21:05 +0000

A more general solution for the Terminal,
output is just the IP address of the default route:

route -n get default|grep interface|awk ‘{ print $2 }’|xargs ipconfig getifaddr

- determine the interface of the default route
- extract the line w/ the identifier of the interface
- let AWK determine the name and pass it
- to ipconfig via xargs

By: Roberto

Roberto — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:08:19 +0000

You can get the information from both ‘ifconfig’ and ‘ipconfig’ but the author seems to want to strip the extraneous information provided by ifconfig and get right to the address with ‘ipconfig’.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:51:14 +0000

Should that not be “ifconfig”, and not “ipconfig”?