Console-conf and ip address

Michael Vogt michael.vogt at canonical.com
Fri Sep 23 19:12:19 UTC 2016


On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 07:37:41PM +0100, Victor Palau wrote:
> So I guess is not possible to display the ip on the login console prompt?

This is possible.

I uploaded a new ubuntu-core-config package that will show the IP on
tty1 before the login prompt. Should be in the next edge image.

Cheers,
 Michael

> On 23 Sep 2016 18:34, "Oliver Grawert" <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> > On Sa, 2016-09-24 at 01:28 +0800, Shuduo Sang wrote:
> > I use to use "nmap -sn 192.168.0.1/24" to find the IP address of my
> > > Pi box since it always change with my router after reflash new image.
> > >
> > this is sadly one of the drawbacks of the new netplan tool ...
> > it sends the machine ID alongside with the MAC address to the dhcp
> > server when obtaining the IP for the first time ... since on a freshly
> > flashed board this ID is newly generated it kind of forcefully changes
> > the IP with every re-flash.
> >
> > ciao
> >         oli
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