Viewing Interface Information

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

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)

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