Please VMWare don't run your network utilities trough network...

[nerfur]

... or we will get something like

# esxcli network ip connection list

Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure

:smileylaugh:

PS I got this in "Out of HTTP sessions" situation

[continuum]

When esxcli commands are not available - either because network is down or because hostd is running amok - you can use localcli instead.
AFAIK localcli offers a subset of the esxcli commands but your example is available.

Try
localcli network ip get
for example