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Date:	Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:37:46 +0100
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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>>> Why not the more simple:
>>>
>>> ipconfig | grep "IP Address" | awk '{print $NF}'
>>
>>
>> Because that may return more than one result. And it doesn't choose 
>> the one with the lowest metric, which is most likely to be the primary 
>> gateway to the world-at-large.
> 
> 
> By and large most people have but 1 IP address but if you must tack on a 
> "| head -1". YMMV

Perhaps, but if you ever use VPN, you have more than one network 
interface (one physical and one virtual). This was why I created my 
little script.

Also, many new motherboard have 2 NICs and also a firewire port that 
also functions as a NIC. All in all, more than 1 network interface is 
not that uncommon (I have 4 on my pc but up to 3 on my laptop (NIC, 
wireless, VPN).

Anyway, I gave my script to aid, not to start a discussion.

Have fun ;-)

Bernhard


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