On 2018-04-17, Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, Long Wind wrote:
>> we used to call them eth0, eth1 ...now we use new names
>> i have a ethernet card in stretchhow to find out its name? Thanks!
>
> sudo ip link;
Do you need sudo for that (would I get something else here if I was
root)?
(I tried as root and cannot distinguish between the two outputs but won't paste
that
here so as to not beat the thing over the head too hard.)
curty@einstein:~$ ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode
DEFAULT group default qlen 1
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP
mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether c8:9c:dc:6f:d3:11 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> will show you what the available interface names are.
>
>
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