"ip" command of iproute2 package

Question

In Linux I can do: ip -4 address show or (more verbosely): ip -family inet address show to retrieve information on IP addressing. This command returns:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN     group default
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
inet 10.0.1.65/24 brd 10.0.1.255 scope global wlan0
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

I'd like to retrieve the same information in OS X from a terminal, without installing additional software and without elevating user privileges. Is any one familiar with the OS X equivalent of this command?

For reference, here's the Bash Version I'm using in Mac OS X: GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin15) .

Answer 1

The commands that you want are:

• ifconfig -a inet
• ifconfig -a inet6

Bonus commands:

• arp -a
• ndp -a

These are all the same as on FreeBSD and TrueOS. (This is not universally the case for MacOS, but is the case here.)

Further reading

• ifconfig. Mac OS 10 Manual Pages. Apple corporation. 2008.