How To Find My IP Address on MAC

Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. Some Instructions to find out your IP address on MAC are

Instructions:

1. Using ipconfig command

• Open a terminal window so that you can type commands that are not on a menu. If you already have a terminal window open, skip to Step 5.
• The top menu bar should now say “Finder”; click on Go -> applications
• On the applications menu, click on Utilities to open the set of commands that are on the Utilties submenu.
• Under the Utilities folder, click on Terminal.
• In the terminal window, type “ifconfig” then hit return.
• In the output, there will be lines that include inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast a.b.c.d
• The IP address of the interface is the four numbers denoted by x.x.x.x in the lines described above.

2. Using netstat ommand

• Open a terminal window so that you can type commands that are not on a menu. If you already have a terminal window open, skip to Step 5.
• The top menu bar should now say “Finder”; click on Go -> applications
• On the applications menu, click on Utilities to open the set of commands that are on the Utilties submenu.
• Under the Utilities folder, click on Terminal.
• In the terminal window, type “netstat -p tcp” then hit return.
• This should return far fewer lines of text so you don’t have to search too much for the information.

3. Using Online Websites

• Go to Google.com or some other search engine website.
• Search for the keyword “What is my IP”.
• Find out website from the listed searched websites which shows your current IP address.
• You can directly use website www.whatismyip.com to find out your IP address.

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