In short, there are numerous reasons why you might need to know the IP address of a machine on your local network. I want to show you how to find that information on most operating systems.

I was thinking of one thing with my mp3 machine.It's not going to have a dedicated monitor, nor will it be connected to the network constantly, so how would I find out its IP address to ftp/telnet ...

Anyone know of a way to get an IP address of a device if I have the MAC adderss.Reason being is I'm writing a script to ssh into a device and chagne the ...

Do you know your IP address? You don't have to, but you should know where to find it. This is how to go about it on all devices.