Linux Learning : How to get IP Address using command line? What is equivalent of IPCONFIG in Linux?
Posted by blakhani on August 23, 2016
Recently, I created a Linux Ubuntu VM in my Hyper-V environment. To connect, I was using PuTTY tool and was getting “Access Denied” error. On the other hand, I was able to connect using Hyper-V console. Here is what I mean
I knew that I am definitely trying to connect to some other Ubuntu machine in my corporate network. All I need to figure out was the IP Address of my VM and connect using IP Address instead of the name. I took help from in-house expert Pradeep (b | t) and he showed me the magical command.
In Windows, we are used to use IPCONFIG to know the IP address of a Windows machine. In the same way, IFCONFIG is the command in Linux. Since I was able to connect using Hyper-V console, I ran the magical command.
It showed the IP Address (10.171.71.87) and then I came back to PuTTy and provided IP to connect and Voilà, I was able to get it!
This might be something known to many (like Pradeep) but still unknown to few (like me) so sharing via blog.
Cheers,
Balmukund
Help: SQL Server 
Sudeepta Ganguly said
Sir,
The other way to the find the ip address is to execute the command “ip a” on putty/ubuntu terminal. It also display the IP address configured on the machine.
blakhani said
Oh yeah. Thanks for sharing.
BhavyaArora said
Where are you sir. 1 year passed and no blog.
Please write about discrepancy between versions reported by different tools in SQL server.
E.g. In discovery report showing Sp3, while @@version showing SP4.
Regards