Windows IP address configuration can be gathered with different ways. In this tutorial we will learn command line tool ipconfig and GUI to learn IP address of the operating system.

Command Line with ipconfig Command

ipconfig is a tool which provides detailed information about the system network configuration. This will list information like Physical Address , IPv4 Address , IPv6 Address , DNS Servers .

Open Command Prompt

We can open command prompt in different ways but writing cmd to the Start Menu is the simplest way.

ipconfig Command

Than issue ipconfig command like below.

> ipconfig

From Network Management Center

From GUI we can get IP address information from Control Panel->Network and Sharing Center .

Open Network Interface

Then we will open Ethernet0 in this example which is the interface we are accessing to the internet.

Network Connection Details

This screen provides us different information like Sent and Received packets etc. We will click to the Details button which will open following window. This windows provides ipconfig like information. We can find detailed information like IPv4 Address or IPv6 Address etc.