What command reports the "real" IP address?

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?

"Julie Holiday" <(E-Mail Removed)> 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?
>


Your Router / Modem has the real address.
Log into that at http://192.168.0.1
Put in user name and password and a menu item like STATUS should show it too
you.

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:22:10 GMT, Julie Holiday <(E-Mail Removed)>
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.

<snip>

Log into your router to see your public WAN IP address.

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.

You have to check the device that's actually connected to the Internet. In
this case it's not the computers on your home LAN. It's the device that
connects your network to the Internet: Your router. Check your router's
configuration.

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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?
>
If you connect your computer directly to your modem, your computer
receives a 'real', that is, Internet address from the modem. Then
ipconfig /all will show that address.

When your computer is connected to a router, the router receives the
'real' address and issues your computer an internal address. In that
case (which is much preferred to the direct connection), the computer
only knows the address assigned by the router.

You can log in to your router to see the Internet address or as you have
noted, go to a site which can tell you what address it is connected to
(your router's Internet address).

Another way of looking at this is that your ISP assigns an address to
you. That address can only belong to one computer. When you use a
router, the router is the computer receiving that address. Your computer
is sharing that address but has no idea what that address is. It only
knows its own address which it received from the router.

Julie Holiday schrieb:
> What command reports our "real" IP address to the world?

The only piece of equipment dealing with the external IP address is your
router.

Login to the router (most likely via your internet browser) and have a look.

The pcs only have local addresses.

--
Martin Bodenstedt

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

Julie Holiday wrote:

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

As far as your computer is concerned, that is your real IP address.
Your router handles the translation for you. What you could do is
log into your router and get that info from there. I have a CGI
script on my website that I can use to tell me the same info.
You could also autmoate it by using wget or similar and scraping
the info from your router's webpage to save the trouble of logging
in manually.

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" <(E-Mail Removed)> 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 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)

In article <Xns975BD95EE41BEHPb@207.115.17.102>,
Julie Holiday <(E-Mail Removed)> 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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