Determining my ISP's IP address

[Aloone_Jonez]

How do I determine the IP address of my ISP (ntlworld) in Windows XP?

Windows is currently set up to connect to the Internet and I want to set up Vector Linux too.

I have looked at the Internet connection settings in control panel but to no avail.

[flap]

Why do you need their IP address?

[bedouin]

Type ipconfig from the command line.  It will list all your network devices and their IPs.  Though, I don't know why you need it unless you have a static IP or your ISP doesn't support DHCP.

[flap]

ntlworld does support dhcp.

[Canadian Lover]

Try opening a Command prompt and type "ping localhost" and press enter.

[flap]

quote:Originally posted by Canadian Lover:
Try opening a Command prompt and type "ping localhost" and press enter.

No, don't do that.

[Canadian Lover]

quote:Originally posted by flap:


No, don't do that.

Uhh, why?

[flap]

Try doing what you've just suggested and see if you can work it out.

[ August 26, 2004: Message edited by: flap ]

[Canadian Lover]

quote:Originally posted by flap:
Try doing what you've just suggested and see if you can work it out.

[ August 26, 2004: Message edited by: flap ]

Yea, I get my isp's ip address.

[flap]

Is this in Windows? Why does it do that?

[Canadian Lover]

quote:Originally posted by flap:
Is this in Windows? Why does it do that?

Dunno. Yes it's in windows.

[WMD]

Easy way:

www.danasoft.com/vipersig.jpg

Tada!  

Now, dial-up modems set their IPs automatically, so I doubt you actually need this.

[flap]

quote:Originally posted by WMD:
Easy way:

www.danasoft.com/vipersig.jpg

That won't necessarily work. It may give you the address of your ISP's cache server.

[Aloone_Jonez]

Thank you all for your help on the matter.

I don't know why I need my ISP's IP address, Vector Linux just asked me for it when I set up the Internet.

Each method that you gave me produced a different result.

I would imagine that one might be my address the other could be my ISPs and one could be the ISP's cache server.

What's dhcp?

Do you think I made a mistake some where ealier on  in the set up of my Internet connection?

Anyway, I'm going to try them all and if it dosn't work I will reinstall

[ August 27, 2004: Message edited by: Aloone ]

[flap]

DHCP is used to automatically set your machine's IP address. NTL definitely uses it so you don't need to supply an IP address yourself. If it's asking for a static IP address it should have an option to just leave it blank and use DHCP instead.