Determining the IP address of your device

posted by  techgeek (12)  13 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Device's do not typically register a name with the network.  This means you cannot just use a name to connect to or ping the device.  Back in July 2004, I posted a snippet that shows all of the IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) that equate to "localhost".  Today, I am posting a slightly modified version that displays the IP addresses that you can use to connect to your device.

Please note: I intentionally did not make a user interface to keep the snippet as small as possible.  Also, since m