From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 11:18: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E7E37B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:18:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACCF043E4A for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:17:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB5DE32825; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 14:17:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 14:17:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: DaleCo Help Desk Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: What is vnlru really? In-Reply-To: <003d01c27b07$9031b740$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> Message-ID: <20021026141539.T25789-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, DaleCo Help Desk wrote: > PL> PS - Is `arp -a` the most reliable way to get one's current IP address? > What's wrong with "ifconfig" ??? > Kevin Kinsey I was not familiar with ifconfig and am surprised at such a similar name to winipcfg for Win98. It seems arp -a tells me one IP while ipconfig tells me another. Is that because I'm using DHCP, or is arp -a maybe reporting a DNS value, not my currently-assigned IP? PS - Yack! ".biz?!" -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message