Know Your Enemy - Network Security

[Edgar Allen]

>
>This is a pretty good article.  I'm currently working an a set of
>scripts to set IPCHAINS up for the security concious home user.  Right
>now I just need to develop a wrapper for ifconfig so that I can just
>return the IP address.
>
You could use this:

	ifconfig eth0|sed -n 's/^ *inet addr:([0-9.]*) .*/1/p'