How to know your IP address

While using the Internet, we connect to the Internet using some IP (Internet Protocol) address. By reviewing this IP address, any internet user's location information and internet usage history can be known. Many people do not know their IP address even if they use the Internet regularly. An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device or device connected to a computer network where the nodes of the network use the Internet Protocol to communicate. Let’s see how to know your IP address.

Public IP address: Finding public IP addresses is very easy. For this, you have to enter the browser from the computer or smartphone and go to the Google search engine. If you search by writing 'What is my IP address' there, you can see the public IP address.

Private IP address: Private IP addresses can be found in different ways from smartphones and computers. To find the private IP address from a computer running Windows operating system, first click on the settings menu. Then select Network and Internet option and click on Properties. Scroll down to find the IPv4 address. This is the private IP address.

To find a private address from a smartphone, first go to Settings and click on Connections. Then tap on the Wi-Fi option and tap on the Settings icon next to Network.

 

IP addresses are further divided into three categories based on different characteristics and functionality. For example:

 

Unicast IP Address

Multicast IP Address

Broadcast IP Address

 

Up to now you can basically know about these three types of IP address.

 

What is Unicast IP Address?

Unicast essentially uniquely identifies an Internet user's host. And that single group could be you or me or anyone else. These types of IP addresses are used when you basically do any point-to-point communication. Unicast IP addresses are Internet Protocol or IP addresses that are assigned to a single device.

 

They are not used within your home network but they work across the entire world internet

It is important because it provides a point of contact between a single computer and the rest of the World Wide Web

What is Multicast IP Address?

Basically when any group communication is done then multicast address is used to detect such communication. And that is why it is called one to many multicast IP address.

In other words, multicast IP addresses are similar to unicast IP addresses in that they can be used by multiple destinations. They are used to send information from one host to multiple hosts on a network at the same time without using a separate communication channel for each destination.

What is Broadcast IP Address?

The broadcast IP address is called the point-to-all communication.

Because such IP addresses can detect the data of different hosts in the form of packages.

where multiple user identities are carried simultaneously.

Broadcast IP addresses are used by networks to transmit information to all connected devices at the same time. To do this without interruption or delay they use a special type of IP address called Broadcast IP Address. The way Broadcast IP Addresses work is when data is sent using a broadcast IP address. It will then be received by every other device on that network segment. This means that if multiple segments of an organization are connected to network hardware.

As switches and routers use broadcast IP addresses any data sent will be received on each of those segments.

How does IP address work?

The main function of an IP address is to connect a computer device to a network of other computer devices. For example, suppose you enter a website.

Now after entering that website you need to access various data and information of that site.

In that case, your free computer device must be connected to the IP server.

And the work of connecting your computer with a server is done by the IP address.

These IP addresses basically help a local computer device to connect with all other computer devices through a common network. Because these IP addresses are basically enabled on a common network. As a result, one device can find another device.

Why do we use IP (Internet Protocol) Address?

An IP address (Internet Protocol) is a numerical label. It is assigned to each device on a computer network. Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are used to communicate with each computer over the network.

In a word, IP Address is the Logical Identifier of a Network Node or Host connection. Each Host in IP Network is marked with a specific number. This number is IP (Internet Protocol). IP (Internet Protocol) is 32 Bit. It can be divided into 4 parts by 8 Bit.