Linux check network interfaces

HowTo: Linux Show List Of Network Cards

H ow do I display a list of all network cards under Linux operating systems?

You can use any one of the following command to list network cards installed under Linux operating systems. Please note that the ifconfig and ip commands will also display interfaces information about vpn, loopback, and other configured interfaces.

Tutorial details
Difficulty level	Easy
Root privileges	Yes
Requirements	Linux
Est. reading time	2m

1. lspci command : List all PCI devices.
2. lshw command : List all hardware.
3. dmidecode command : List all hardware data from BIOS.
4. ifconfig command : Outdated network config utility.
5. ip command : Recommended new network config utility.
6. hwinfo command : Probe Linux for network cards.
7. ethtool command : See NIC/card driver and settings on Linux.

We use standard terms, such as the network interface controller (NIC). Also known as a network interface card, network adapter, LAN adapter or physical network interface, and so on. Let us see some useful examples for displing out NIC info on Linux.

Use lspci command Linux command to show list of network cards

Type the following lspci command along with egrep command to filter out devices:
# lspci | egrep -i —color ‘network|ethernet’
# lspci | egrep -i —color ‘network|ethernet|wireless|wi-fi’
Sample outputs from my Linux server:

How to use lshw command for displaying network cards (NIC) on Linux

The lshw command can extract detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine including network cards. Type the following command:
# lshw -class network
Detailed hardware information about network cards on Linux:

Here is another outputs:

1. -class network : View all network cards on your Linux system
2. -short : Display device tree showing hardware paths, very much like the output of HP-UX’s ioscan

Let us see mask, IP and other information set up for wlp82s0:
$ ip a show wlp82s0

Linux ethtool command for Ethernet hardware devices

Want to see/query or control network driver and hardware settings on Linux? Try the the ethtool command:
$ sudo ethtool enp0s31f6
And it spitted out tons of useful information for my Ethernet network card on Linux:

We can display driver information for network card too:
$ sudo ethtool -i eth0
$ sudo ethtool -i enp0s31f6

ifconfig and ip commands

To see all configured network devices, enter:
# ifconfig -a
OR
# ip link show
OR
# ip a
Sample outputs:

Want to list all IP addresses and interfaces on Linux in a tabular format for better readability? Try:
$ ip -br -c link show
$ ip -br -c addr show

Listing network cards on Linux using hwinfo command

Open the terminal and then type:
$ sudo hwinfo —network —short

We can now obtain more info for eth0 using the ip command:
$ ip a s eth0
My IP address assigned to eth0:

The /proc/net/dev file

The dev pseudo-file contains network device status information. This gives the number of received and sent packets, the number of errors and collisions and other basic statistics. Open the terminal and then type the following cat command:
$ cat /proc/net/dev
Stats:

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Conclusion

We learned about various Linux commands to display information about installed and running network cards.

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In which distro are you using the ip command? I’m trying it in Ubuntu and it seems to be a command to manipulate routing

@Chex, thanks! On Ubuntu, I was getting an error trying to run ‘ip -a’, but your command worked — and it’s very useful info.

It was a typo on part.

However, ip link show should be used.

For wireless cards I find “iwconfig” useful. I used to have problems with a wireless adapter going offline, which I worked around with “iwconfig wlan0 power off” to turn off its power management feature.

It would be most useful to correlate the HW info to the logical device name, such as the Broadcom NIC is eth1.

Try ethtool or lspci it will map both along with driver name:

Writing a shell script left as an exercise for the reader.

At any point is this site going to post anything that isn’t basic common knowledge to any linux users that isnt a complete noob?

Because if not, then I’m going to unsubscribe from your RSS feed.

I can not stop you or anyone else from unsubscribing to our RSS feed. The /faq/ section is for new users only so it has all sort of questions and answers. As you may have noticed that I’ve already started to display the difficulty level for each Q & A. I’m also working on rss feed for all three difficulties. So that users can only subscribe as follows:

• Easy – for beginners.
• Moderate – for Intermediate users.
• Hard – for Advanced users.

This is going to take a little more time as need some sort of coding and modification on my part. Hope this helps.

ok, so idioms for the easy/intermediate/hard would be ubuntu/debian/all others? ^^

Nah, but linux is no longer for those who actually are bothered to learn how to use a computer (as opposed to the in ‘noob-land’), learn how to use windows. Now, many of the windows users who are just ‘end users’ and not computer savvy, migrate to linux, and will inadvertedly land on ubuntu like distros.

I recall on youtube, some user saying, I have been using Ubuntu for 6 months and consider myself fairly knowledgable, and then went on about DE if they are installable in other distros and what not. I don’t even know what it was, but it was so absurd, I am glad that person uttered Ubuntu and not linux, as clearly the person was clueless in the latter.

You can blame Canonical for such issue. Just visit http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop home page and try to find out word Linux. I think they are ashamed of using word Linux.

PS: I use Debian Linux 🙂

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Hope this helps!

@root
I don’t suppose you have noticed that at least 99% of the worlds population are at least some variant of a linux ‘noob’. It would indeed be pointless to run a web site for just the 1% who are whizz kids as you would have very few visitors indeed.

Also, I believe it should be ‘to any linux user who isn’t’

I’ve clearly lost the plot a little myself, ‘at least’ and ‘indeed’ twice in above comment. Have to stop taking these tablets.

In your scripts, the easiest way is to do something like this.

for x in `/sbin/ifconfig | grep Link | awk ‘’ | sort | egrep -v ‘inet6|lo’`
do
echo $x
done

Or you can /sbin/ifconfig $x | grep to extract and read the data into a variable to work on later.

Here is a small code you can use in your scripts.

for x in `/sbin/ifconfig | grep Link | awk ‘’ | sort | egrep -v ‘inet6|lo’`
do
echo $x
done

You can replace echo $x with
/sbin/ifconfig $x | grep (any property you are looking for) and read that into a variable.

I think some of the posts are not being accepted in the comments, Vivek. Not sure why. I thought first it was something in my browser.
I sure hope I didn’t have duplicates in the comments. 🙂

We cache page for 15 minutes. So you will not see updates immediately.

how to check the nic card settings in linux

What distro?
What specifics you are looking for?
If you mean network settings for each card, depending on your distro, it can be found at

For Redhat based distros
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-[device Name]

For Debian based distros
/etc/network/interfaces

For in depth, in detail information other settings about your network card, use ethtool.

Run
man ethtool

i have dell and i have wireless in my neighbours but shows me red cross so what i do please

I am new in linux.
now I have problem with my X-Server installation.

my machine used Red Hat V7,2
and my card is used AGX3281.

this is I did for replaced the old card, but I did with the same type.

after I finished the install the X-server, and run startx,
[root@barco1 root]# startx

xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server “X” in PATH

Use the — option, or make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path and
that “X” is a program or a link to the right type of server
for your display. Possible server names include:

XFree86 XFree86 displays

giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

and when I start lspci
[root@barco1 root]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2770 (rev 02)
00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2772 (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27d0 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27d2 (rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27d4 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27d6 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27c8 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27c9 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27ca (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27cb (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27cc (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM PCI (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27b8 (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27c0 (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27da (rev 01)
0b:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device b154
0b:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (re
v 05)
0c:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4c57
0c:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4c57
0c:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4c57
0c:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4c57
0c:04.0 Host bridge: NEC Corporation Vrc5074 [Nile 4] (rev 03)

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Linux Show / Display Available Network Interfaces

• ip command – It is used to show or manipulate routing, devices, policy routing and tunnels.
• netstat command – It is used to display network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships.
• ifconfig command – It is used to display or configure a network interface.

Tutorial details
Difficulty level	Easy
Root privileges	No
Requirements	None
Est. reading time	4 minutes

List Network Interfaces Using ip Command on Linux

Type the following ip command, enter:
$ ip link show
Here is what we see:

1. lo – Loopback interface.
2. eth0 – My first Ethernet network interface on Linux.
3. wlan0 – Wireless network interface in Linux.
4. ppp0 – Point to Point Protocol network interface which can be used by dial up modem, PPTP vpn connection, or 3G wireless USB modem.
5. vboxnet0, vmnet1, vmnet8 – Virtual machine interface working in bridge mode or NAT mode on Linux.

Linux show / display available network interfaces using nmcli

One can list available devices and their status on Linux, run:
$ nmcli device status
OR
$ nmcli connection show

Linux list all network interfaces using nmcli and ip command

Show a table of all network interfaces using netstat command in Linux

Type the following command:
$ netstat -i
Sample outputs:

Linux ip list interfaces using ifconfig command

Type the following ifconfig command:
$ /sbin/ifconfig -a
Sample outputs:

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