View Hostname and IP Address of Raspberry Pi

September 4, 2012 by Sanket Sonavane 1 Comment

To View Host Name

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ hostname

Returns
raspberrypi

 

To View IP Address

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ip addr

Returns
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether b8:27:eb:90:aa:d6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 10:bf:48:50:4d:08 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.208/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global wlan0

OR

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ifconfig

Returns
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:27:eb:90:aa:d6
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 10:bf:48:50:4d:08
inet addr:192.168.1.208 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1262 errors:0 dropped:3 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:381 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:121349 (118.5 KiB) TX bytes:54742 (53.4 KiB)

Note: I am connected to my RPi using WLAN so it also displays wlan0

 

Enjoy 🙂