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Finding Your IP Address
If you want to determine your own personal IP address, and a host of other things you might really be happier not knowing about your computer, you have two options:
1. Open a DOS prompt and type ipconfig/all. Then look for "Physical Address....." Your IP address will appear as six sets of hexadecimal characters.
2. The other way to look up these numbers is through your Windows XP “Network Connections” utility, known in Vista as “Network and Sharing Center,” which is accessed through the Control Panel.
- When you double-click the Network Connections, you will see your active connections, whether or not they are enabled or disabled at the moment.
- Right click on the active connection and choose “Status” to show the details of that connection. You will see that the duration of the current Internet connection is displayed (usually many hours of your day, often without anything to show for them), along with the number of packets sent and received since the connection was established (not necessarily a direct indication of any information of value being sent in either direction).
- The “Support” tab will display the same IP address as was shown using the DOS method. Also, you can see that my address was “assigned by DHCP,” the protocol referenced in my last post.
- And, if you can’t resist and click on the “Details” button, you will see the MAC address.
Next time: Routers and bridges.
1. Open a DOS prompt and type ipconfig/all. Then look for "Physical Address....." Your IP address will appear as six sets of hexadecimal characters.
2. The other way to look up these numbers is through your Windows XP “Network Connections” utility, known in Vista as “Network and Sharing Center,” which is accessed through the Control Panel.
- When you double-click the Network Connections, you will see your active connections, whether or not they are enabled or disabled at the moment.
- Right click on the active connection and choose “Status” to show the details of that connection. You will see that the duration of the current Internet connection is displayed (usually many hours of your day, often without anything to show for them), along with the number of packets sent and received since the connection was established (not necessarily a direct indication of any information of value being sent in either direction).
- The “Support” tab will display the same IP address as was shown using the DOS method. Also, you can see that my address was “assigned by DHCP,” the protocol referenced in my last post.
- And, if you can’t resist and click on the “Details” button, you will see the MAC address.
Next time: Routers and bridges.
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