How To Check The Network Configuration on a Linux Instance

The ip command can be used with different options to check and configure network devices on a Linux system.

To check the current network link-layer configuration for all available devices on a Linux system run the following command:

# ip link show

The network configuration for each network device on Linux system, can be checked with the ip command:

# ip addr show

For further information on the ip command and how it can be used, see the following video on using the ip command on Oracle Linux 8.

Although the video refers to Oracle Linux 8, the specific ip commands will work on all current versions of Oracle Linux and Ubuntu.