What command reports the "real" IP address?

Since your real address is assigned to the router by the cable modem - you
need to check your router or cable modem for it and not your pc.

Internet -> cablemodem -> router -> pc

ipconfig on your pc tells you your pc's ip address


"Julie Holiday" <> wrote in message
news:Xns975BD95EE41BEHPb@207.115.17.102...
> What command reports our "real" IP address to the world?
>
> I have a standard home wireless setup with a cable modem connected to a
> wireless router and a single laptop computer wirelessly connected.
>
> I googled for "query IP address" and I found this commmand.
> c:\> ipconfig /?
> c:\> ipconfig /release
> c:\> ipconfig /renew
> c:\> ipconfig /all
>
> But that ipconfig command doesn't give my "real" IP address.
> That ipconfig command only reports my "fake" address!
> Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
> Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
> IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.200
> Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
> Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
> DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
> DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
>
> By googling, I found web sites that tell me my "real" IP address.
>
> For example, http://www.webyield.net/domainquery.html
> tells me my "real" ip address is 69.110.21.223
>
> But how do I find my "real" IP address without having to go to a web site
> to find out. Does the ipconfig command or the netstat command have a
> hidden
> option to report the "real" ip address?
>
> If not, what command reports the "real" IP address?
>

riggor99999

riggor99999 schrieb:
> Since your real address is assigned to the router by the cable modem - you
> need to check your router or cable modem for it and not your pc.

The IP is *not* assigned by the modem (beeing only a simple, stupid
bridge in this context) but by Your ISP...

--
Martin Bodenstedt

(www.die-bodenstedts.de / www.maboko.de)

Martin Bodenstedt

In article <Xns975BD95EE41BEHPb@207.115.17.102>,
Julie Holiday <> wrote:

> What command reports our "real" IP address to the world?
>
> I have a standard home wireless setup with a cable modem connected to a
> wireless router and a single laptop computer wirelessly connected.

Your router tells you. That's the only thing in your setup that has
your outside IP address. Your computer knows nothing.

Your router has a web page, probably, that will tell you.

Question: why do you need to know this?

Elmo P. Shagnasty

In article <Xns975BD95EE41BEHPb@207.115.17.102>,
Julie Holiday <> wrote:
>What command reports our "real" IP address to the world?
>
>I have a standard home wireless setup with a cable modem connected to a
>wireless router and a single laptop computer wirelessly connected.
>
>I googled for "query IP address" and I found this commmand.
>c:\> ipconfig /?
>c:\> ipconfig /release
>c:\> ipconfig /renew
>c:\> ipconfig /all
>
>But that ipconfig command doesn't give my "real" IP address.
>That ipconfig command only reports my "fake" address!
>Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
>Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
>IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.200
>Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
>Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
>DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
>DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
>
>By googling, I found web sites that tell me my "real" IP address.
>
>For example, http://www.webyield.net/domainquery.html
>tells me my "real" ip address is 69.110.21.223
>
>But how do I find my "real" IP address without having to go to a web site
>to find out. Does the ipconfig command or the netstat command have a hidden
>option to report the "real" ip address?
>
>If not, what command reports the "real" IP address?

Your Windows machine (and any machine behind your wireless router) won't
know your "external" IP address (what you're calling your "real" IP
address). Usually you can ask your wireless router itself what the
outside IP address, but you have to go through it's web interface for
that.

Is there a reason you need to have your PC know the external IP address?

Patrick
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Julie Holiday wrote:
> What command reports our "real" IP address to the world?
>
> I have a standard home wireless setup with a cable modem connected to a
> wireless router and a single laptop computer wirelessly connected.
>
> I googled for "query IP address" and I found this commmand.
> c:\> ipconfig /?
> c:\> ipconfig /release
> c:\> ipconfig /renew
> c:\> ipconfig /all
>
> But that ipconfig command doesn't give my "real" IP address.
> That ipconfig command only reports my "fake" address!
> Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
> Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
> IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.200
> Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
> Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
> DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
> DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
>
> By googling, I found web sites that tell me my "real" IP address.
>
> For example, http://www.webyield.net/domainquery.html
> tells me my "real" ip address is 69.110.21.223
>
> But how do I find my "real" IP address without having to go to a web site
> to find out. Does the ipconfig command or the netstat command have a hidden
> option to report the "real" ip address?
>
> If not, what command reports the "real" IP address?
>

You can always find your WAN IP address in the router's web interface,
192.168.X.1 where X is provided in the user manual (0,1,2,...). Just
type the the router's LAN IP into a browser address bar.

Q

Quaoar

In article <Xns975BD95EE41BEHPb@207.115.17.102>,
Julie Holiday <> writes:
>
> What command reports our "real" IP address to the world?
>
> I have a standard home wireless setup with a cable modem connected to a
> wireless router and a single laptop computer wirelessly connected.
>
> I googled for "query IP address" and I found this commmand.
> c:\> ipconfig /?
> c:\> ipconfig /release
> c:\> ipconfig /renew
> c:\> ipconfig /all
>
> But that ipconfig command doesn't give my "real" IP address.
> That ipconfig command only reports my "fake" address!
> Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
> Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
> IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.200

That *IS* your *COMPUTER'S* "real" IP address. Chances are, though, that
you're sitting behind a NAT gateway, either built into your cable modem or
running as a separate device. The NAT router has its own IP address, which
is visible to the world at large, and it rewrites packets to and from the
computer(s) on the network it serves to make it seem as if the packets
come from the NAT router itself. There's no way you can tell what the NAT
router's address is using exclusively local commands on the computer(s) it
serves. Instead, you must either access the NAT router itself (via a
Telnet session, Web interface, or whatever) or access an outside Web site
that reports back your IP address (as you said you've done).

--
Rod Smith,
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux, FreeBSD, and networking

Rod Smith

Your real IP address 192.168.0.200 is par of the "private IP
addresses". You will never see this kind of address on the internet. On
your private network you can use any kind of Ip addresses. But to get
outside, on the internet, finaly you must have a public IP address.
This means that either your PC is cennected derectly to the internet,
which is very improbable, or you pass trough your ISP gateway, which is
directly connected to the internet.
For example my ISP gave me a public IP address. It was his option. So
it doesn't need to make NAT to allow me to exit on the internet.
But it would decide to gave me a private IP address, then NAT in
imperatively needed.


Br,
Dan

shogunu

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:22:10 GMT, in alt.internet.wireless , Julie
Holiday <> wrote:

>What command reports our "real" IP address to the world?

Your router's config page will show your external, public IP.

>IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.200

internal private IP.

>tells me my "real" ip address is 69.110.21.223

external public IP.

>But how do I find my "real" IP address

both of these are real - in some ways the 192. one is realler since
it uniquely identifies your PC, whereas the 69. address could refer to
any of 254 computers connected to your router.
Mark McIntyre
--

Mark McIntyre