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Posted: Jan. 11 2005,02:25 |
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totalshredder,
What is your IP?
Well, that's easy!
Open the xterminal in the upper left hand corner of your desktop. (if you have no icons, then right click and go to shells, then pick one)
After the terminal window opens typ this:
ifconfig
You'll get some results back. If you only have one network interface card, i.e.: ethernet card, then the ip you are looking for is displayed as eth0
If you have wireless, it's displayed as wlan0
Local machine (the machine you are using) has an "internal" IP of sorts, which is lo, sometimes referred to as 'loopback'
However, if you are behind a firewall/router that is performing NAT (network address translation), and you are trying to allow incoming traffic to the IP of your DSL box on port 80 (or whatever port), you will also need to know the IP address your firewall/router is translating your 192.168.1.xxx to, which is your 'outside' IP or NAT'ed IP.
To find out what your "outside" IP address is, go to www.whatismyip.com
That page will tell you what it see's your IP address as. You will enter that IP address in a browser (or whatever) when you are outside of your home environment (or where ever you LAN (local area network) is).
NOTE:
To test your new webpage, if you are building one, you can enter 127.0.0.1 as the IP address to test locally (on your machine) to see if Monkey or Apache is working. That should be the IP displayed as lo when you do ifconfig
Hope that helps.
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