Re: [solved] Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

[Jörg-Volker Peetz]

Have a look at
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_iproute2_commands
as well as the whole chapter 5 of the Debian manual.
The "modern" way to control the IP-address is

$ ip addr

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Regards,
jvp.