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.

Knowing your IP address can help protect your home network and data from prying eyes. Here's how to find it.

If you want to use a static IP address on one of your computers, only minimal configuration is required on the D-Link switch itself.

The reason I got this switch was so I could learn about VLANs. If I need to use VLANs to change the IP address then I'm a bit goosed until I learn how to use VLANs.

Then, if the switch ever gets wiped for some reason it goes back to the same address (ideally), and you have a record on the DHCP server of the addresses (again, it should all be somewhere, but we ...