Thanks Marc, so indeed it does (and i guess 'ip -4 addr' or 'ip -4 a' would work fine for me).
(Aside from google, i did a search for 'mask' in the ip man page and didn't see anything, but your command sure settles the issue.) dan On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 7:23 PM, Marc Auslander <marcsli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dan Hitt <dan.h...@gmail.com> writes: > >> What is the preferred way to determine the subnet mask of your box >> using /bin/ip on debian 9.0 (stretch)? >> >> In the old days, this sort of information would come out of ifconfig, >> but it looks like debian really wants to get away from ifconfig, and i >> think use ip as a sort of replacement. >> >> So i would like to do the same thing, using ip or whatever the debian >> people think is the best practice. >> >> I tried to search for this information using google, but not very skillfully. >> >> TIA for any info. >> >> dan > > On squeeze ip addr does it for me. >
