How To
Find Your Default Gateway IP Address Via IPCONFIG
The ipconfig command, among many other things, is great
for quick access to your default gateway IP address:
- Open Command
Prompt.
- Execute the following command exactly:
ipconfig
...no
space between 'ip' and 'config' and no switches or other options.
- Depending on your version of
Windows, how many network adapters and connections you have, and how your
computer is configured, you may get something very simple in response, or
something very complex.
What you're after is the IP address that's listed as the Default Gateway under the heading for the connection you're interested in. See Step 5 in the process above if you're not sure which connection is important.
On my Windows 10 computer, which has a number of network
connections, the portion of the ipconfig results that I'm interested in is the
one for my wired connection, which looks like this:
...
Ethernet adapter Ethernet:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::8126:df09:682a:68da%12
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.9
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1...
As you can see, the Default
Gateway for my Ethernet connection is listed as 192.168.1.1. This is what you're after as well, for whatever connection
you're interested in.
If that's too much information to look at, you could try
executing ipconfig | findstr "Default Gateway" instead, which significantly trims down the data that's returned in the Command Prompt window.
This second method is only helpful if you know that you only
have one active connection since multiple connections would show their default
gateways with no more context on what connection they apply to.
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