How to find IP address of a machine on network?

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 17 12:40:55 UTC 2009


NoOp wrote:
> On 01/16/2009 06:21 PM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>>     You do not seem to have the actual address of your Internet. All the 
>> 192.168.x.x are sub IP to the various users. I have an ActionTec DSL 
>> modem and router. To get my real IP address I got to http://192.168.0.1 
>> and it has a page that tells me all about it. I print that page and it 
>> is all there.
>>
>>     This works on most small and some quite big routers. My Real IP is 
>> 216.31.x.x which changes if I turn off. But I stay on for many days and 
>> it's good for that period. I can ping my IP and it is quite fast.
>>
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> I don't need it for this scan. If I need my Internet IP I simply check
> my router. If I need a customer to tell me his/her internet IP I simply
> have them go to http://whatsmyip.org/.
>
> Besides, if I go to http://192.168.0.1 it won't tell me anything. My DSL
> modem is set to bridge mode and my lans are run on different subnets
> than 192.168.0.x. The _only_ way that I can connect to
> http://192.168.0.1 from a browser is if I reconfigure a machine to be on
> the 192.168.0.x network. In your case your machine is configured for
> 192.168.0.4 so you are on the same subnet as your DSL modem; hence you
> can http://192.168.0.1 and see the modem's web interface.
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    I was all messed up then. I really do not know what the question is. 
Looking at the question he wants the IP address of a machine that is 
working in a network. Well if it's working it must be done right and you 
can just go to the machine and do a ifconfig and know all about it on 
the machine in question.

    I think he wants to do networking from a remote location. This is 
like the questions I got in Collage where your inside the core of a big 
transformer and you have certain tools like a amp meter and a coil of 
wire. You calculate the details of the big transformer :-)

    My solution was to get out of the room and read the information 
plate on the big transformer.

Karl


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