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Rasi

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ip utility does not display IP adress

 ➜  ~  ip addr show dev eth0
 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
     link/ether 20:cf:30:23:c1:32 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Using ifconfig it is displayed just fine:

 ➜  ~  ifconfig eth0
 eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
         inet 192.168.1.13  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255

Is there anything that needs to be done for ip to work reliably?

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Awebb

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Re: ip utility does not display IP adress

No trouble here. It's not a default issue.

skanky

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Re: ip utility does not display IP adress

Not sure if this is any help, but it's system specific as mine works as expected.
You're missing more than just the IP address, as compared to my output.

Are you using testing? If not, the next version is in testing, so you could try that?

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Rasi

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Re: ip utility does not display IP adress

I am using testing...

indeed with version from [core] it is working

Last edited by Rasi (2012-08-06 10:47:49)

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skanky

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Re: ip utility does not display IP adress

See also http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.a … eral/44077
Not sure whether you just report upstream (see ip man page) or also report it as a bug in Arch as well?
Someone's reported iproute2 as out of date, but not sure it should be upgraded with this issue?

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karol

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Re: ip utility does not display IP adress

Read the man page:

$ ip -4 addr 
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    inet 192.168.1.2/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0

skanky

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Re: ip utility does not display IP adress

Read the man page:

$ ip -4 addr 
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    inet 192.168.1.2/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0

Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I'll need to watch out for that when it gets updated - I have a few scripts that use it.

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karol

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Re: ip utility does not display IP adress

Bug reported https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31052
Patch provided.

karol

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Re: ip utility does not display IP adress

Bug closed, iproute2 3.5.1 fixed it for me: