Re: securing this workstation.

["George N. White III" <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM home user via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I lost ***all*** my notes.  How do I determine this workstation's IP address (presumably set by comcast, my internet service provider)?

For online forums it is best to use a terminal so you get text suitable for posting.   On a system using ethernet, I see:

% ip ad
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp4s0f0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 68:5b:35:9d:59:af brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.2.21/24 brd 192.168.2.255 scope global noprefixroute enp4s0f0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::a832:eb9d:2694:1a02/64 scope link noprefixroute
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

My internet provider doesn't support IPv6.  The IPv4 address is 192.168.2.21.  The 192.168 prefix is

non-routable, so all connections have to originate with your system.  Most home users don't need

IPv6, but that may be changing as IPv4 addresses are getting scarce and expensive. 

 

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George N. White III

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