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# Viewing Interface Information

#### Purpose

You can view information about all system interfaces, or about a specified interface.

#### Action

To view information about all system interfaces:

`user@host> show interfaces`

    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:48:55:B6:FC
              inet addr:10.227.6.42  Bcast:10.227.6.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
              inet6 addr: fe80::230:48ff:fe55:b6fc/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:482467 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:57573 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
              RX bytes:38147790 (36.3 MiB)  TX bytes:4396018 (4.1 MiB)
              Base address:0xcc00 Memory:fc9c0000-fc9e0000

    eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:48:55:B6:FD
              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)
              Base address:0xc800 Memory:fc9a0000-fc9c0000

    lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
              inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
              inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
              UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
              RX packets:1946394 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:1946394 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
              RX bytes:260604464 (248.5 MiB)  TX bytes:260604464 (248.5 MiB)

    lo:1      Link encap:Local Loopback
              inet addr:192.168.254.1  Mask:255.255.255.0
              UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

    sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
              NOARP  MTU:1480  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)

#### Related Topics

- Viewing Information About System Interfaces (C-Web Interface)
- Viewing the Route Information
- Viewing Routing Table Information
- Testing Connectivity to Remote Hosts
- Overview of Commands to Troubleshoot Connections to Remote Hosts

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