What is IP address?Explain how you will get IP address of a computer system.?

Answer 1

An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a unique address that devices use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard (IP). Any participating network device — including routers, computers, time-servers, printers, Internet fax machines, and some telephones — can have their own unique address.

An IP address can also be thought of as the equivalent of a street address or a phone number (compare: VoIP) for a computer or other network device on the Internet. Just as each street address and phone number uniquely identifies a building or telephone, an IP address can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on a network.

An IP address can appear to be shared by multiple client devices either because they are part of a shared hosting web server environment or because a proxy server (e.g. an ISP or anonymizer service) acts as an intermediary agent on behalf of its customers, in which case the real originating IP addresses might be hidden from the server receiving a request. The analogy to telephone systems would be the use of predial numbers (proxy) and extensions (shared).

IP addresses are managed and created by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. IANA generally assigns super-blocks to Regional Internet Registries, who in turn allocate smaller blocks to Internet Service Providers and enterprises.

Answer 2

Each machine connected to the Internet has an address known as an Internet Protocol address (IP address). The IP address takes the form of four numbers separated by dots, for example: 123.45.67.890

You can find your system's IP address at http://whatismyipaddress.com/

To get more details on this, refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address

Answer 3

IP address = Internet Protocol address
If you want to know IP address of your system then go to command prompt and type 'ipconfig' you will get your IP address

Answer 4

ip address of the computer means it is the address for communication over internet & other means.ip=internet prrotocol.
with that u can communicate with ur system being it any where in the internet world.to get the ip address of ur system just right click on the mycomputer then it displayes the general name of ur system.

Answer 5

hi An IP handle is the protocol use on the internet to inter connect distinctive community simoteaunlasly . you may get you NIC IP diferent methods , the main elementary is , initiate / run then sort CMD and the whilst the DOS on the spot comes up , sort IPCONFIG /ALL this might tutor all of the community playing cards on your equipment with the ip hook up with them

Answer 6

well plain and simple

IPADDRESS = is your computers address on the internet, like the one for your house ...they look like this (12.23.123.12)

your internet service provider assigns one to your PC when you get internet

if you want to know your IP adreess go here http://whatismyipaddress.com/

Answer 7

Network address for your machine .

for windows type ipconfig and then enter
for linux/unix type ifconfig and then enter