Sunday 17 November 2013

Discover your current NIC (network interface card) settings

This is a great way to discover your current network IP address.

you will want to begin by accessing the command prompt or CMD for short.

If you are running windows Vista and up you can just use the search bar and type in cmd and click on the CMD icon.

If you are running windows XP you will be accessing CMD through the run button located in the start menu. In order to find this you will click start then RUN then type in cmd.exe and click ok.

you will not have a black window open and you may begin typing your desired command.

In this case our command is: ipconfig /all

After you have typed in your command hit enter.

Now you will have a long list displayed on your screen. The main  settings that you will see are: your NIC settings: IP address, subnet mask, default gateway. DNS servers being used. Your network interface card manufacturer and sometimes model. also if you look down the list you will notice when your ip address was acquired from your network. 
 

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