Topic:
How to find an IPC adderss of a machine?

Description:
The command for finding your IPC address.

Solution:
To find the IPC address of a machine.  Log into the machine and type

 ifconfig -a

The output will look something like below.

lo0: flags=849 mtu 8232
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 
hme0: flags=863 mtu 1500
        inet 163.185.82.71 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 163.185.82.255

the IPC address for the machin above is 163.185.82.71.

Your IPC address wiil be in the same location in your output.

*****  OR  ********

 cat /etc/hosts

output will look like.
#
# Internet host table
#
127.0.0.1       localhost
163.185.82.71           loghost






Last Modified on: 02-JAN-01