Tools

What Is My IP

Working on several servers on multiple locations you sometimes need to get the current IP of a WAN or some LAN connections.

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Finding your IPs

What is my WAN IP?

curl https://ifconfig.me

What is my LAN IP?

ip a

ip a

ip address list

ip r

ip r

ip route list

ip r get

ip r get 1.1.1.1

ip route get 1.1.1.1

netdiscover

A nice utility to display your subnet and it's devices. Latest release is from 2025-08-15

Install

apt update
apt install netdiscover -y

References

netdiscover ^[1]

Netdiscover GitHub ↩︎

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