How to determine the IP address of a Solaris system

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What command do I want to issue when I want to know the IP address of the Solaris machine I'm logged onto?

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score 57 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 31 '09 at 18:54

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If you're a normal user (i.e., not 'root') ifconfig isn't in your path, but it's the command you want.

More specifically: /usr/sbin/ifconfig -a

answered Mar 31 '09 at 18:54

Andrew

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Of course, there may be many interfaces on the box, each with its own IP. – chris Mar 31 '09 at 18:57
Sure. You'll generally have at least two -- the local loopback (lo0) and one or more ethernet connections (on my machine, ce0). – Andrew Mar 31 '09 at 23:38
`-a` Apply the command to all interfaces of the specified address family. If no address family is supplied, either on the command line or by means of /etc/default/inet_type, then all address families will be selected. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-5166/6mbb1kq31/ – Ivan Chau Apr 18 '17 at 06:33

score 9 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 28 '17 at 16:04

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The following worked pretty well for me:

ping -s my_host_name

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answered Mar 31 '09 at 20:05

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score 9 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 19 '11 at 20:25

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/usr/sbin/ifconfig -a | awk 'BEGIN { count=0; } { if ( $1 ~ /inet/ ) { count++; if( count==2 ) { print $2; } } }'

This will list down the exact ip address for the machine

edited Dec 19 '11 at 20:25

answered Aug 26 '11 at 04:58

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but not all if you have several – Andrey Regentov Feb 04 '19 at 09:05

score 5 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 22 '13 at 12:22

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The following shell script gives a nice tabular result of interfaces and IP addresses (excluding the loopback interface) It has been tested on a Solaris box

/usr/sbin/ifconfig -a | awk '/flags/ {printf $1" "} /inet/ {print $2}' | grep -v lo

ce0: 10.106.106.108
ce0:1: 10.106.106.23
ce0:2: 10.106.106.96
ce1: 10.106.106.109

edited Feb 22 '13 at 12:22

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answered Feb 22 '13 at 11:55

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score 4 · Answer 5 · edited Apr 24 '18 at 20:19

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Try using ifconfig -a. Look for "inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", that is your IP address

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answered Mar 31 '09 at 18:06

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Using `ifconfig` like you would on Linux just prints the help file. – jww Jan 26 '17 at 00:09

score 3 · Answer 6 · edited Dec 27 '18 at 20:49

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hostname and uname will give you the name of the host. Then use nslookup to translate that to an IP address.

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answered May 01 '09 at 15:37

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 09 '13 at 21:09

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There's also:

getent $HOSTNAME

or possibly:

getent `uname -n`

On Solaris 11 the ifconfig command is considered legacy and is being replaced by ipadm

ipadm show-addr

will show the IP addresses on the system for Solaris 11 and later.

answered Mar 09 '13 at 21:09

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The *getent* command takes a database as an argument. Perhaps you meant `getent hosts $HOSTNAME` or `getent hosts \`uname -n\`` – Scott Centoni Sep 11 '14 at 15:46

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Apr 10 '09 at 09:19

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/usr/sbin/host `hostname`

should do the trick. Bear in mind that it's a pretty common configuration for a solaris box to have several IP addresses, though, in which case

 /usr/sbin/ifconfig -a inet | awk '/inet/ {print $2}'

will list them all

answered Apr 10 '09 at 09:19

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How to determine the IP address of a Solaris system

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