My ip address

Your public ip address is:

18.219.231.197

Note: Above ip address is your public ip address though which you are connected to public internet. This is usually different from your private ip address which is allocated to your computer by you router or modem. Private address usually starts with 192.168 or 10.10.

 

How to find you private address on Mac/Linux

Run ifconfig on you command line. Here is part of the outcome on Mac.

en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ether 10:40:f1:91:4f:91 
	inet6 fe40::3140:f4ff:fe12:4f94%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 
	inet 192.168.100.103 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255
	media: autoselect
	status: active

In above example 192.168.100.103 is the private ip address.

 

How to find you private address on Windows

Run ipconfig on you command line. Here is part of the outcome on Windows 7.

Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe34::3d2b:123d:c1ac:26ba%12
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.100.102
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.100.1

In above example 192.168.100.102 is the private ip address.