Getting the IP address of the board

Once booted, the board will automatically setup the network interfaces using DHCP. You can get the board ip address by logging as root on a debug console and running the ip address command. Here is an example where the target ip is 192.168.122.81

$ ip address
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: ETH0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel qlen 1000
    link/ether 52:54:00:ae:0f:5f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.122.81/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global dynamic enp0s3
       valid_lft 3544sec preferred_lft 3544sec

In case you cannot connect the device and your computer to a network providing DHCP, see I cannot connect the device to my network

Tip

If you don’t have a serial terminal available, you can as well use our SimpleSwitch™-launcher