Finding the IP address of your Raspberry Pi is not a difficult task once you learn the proper command. That command is ifconfig. ifconfig will list most of the information you need about your network interface.
Each interface has a different name, and those names are:
- eth0 is the wired interface on your Raspberry Pi.
- wlan0 is the wireless interface on your Raspberry Pi.
How:
Start the terminal and type ifconfig. In the diagram below, I have highlighted in yellow text the inet address and the ether. inet is the IP Address of your pi. In my case, it’s 172.16.42.197. The ether address, in my case b8:27:eb:ab:60:5c is the MAC address of my wireless adapter. 99% of the time, you will only need the IP address, but sometimes the security on your WiFi is such that you need to know the MAC address.
