Ipconfig/ifconfig Command
- What does Internet Protocol Configuration (Ipconfig) mean?
- Internet Protocol Configuration (ipconfig) is a Windows console application/tool that has the ability to gather all data regarding current Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) configuration values and then display this data on a screen.
- Ipconfig also refreshes the Domain Name System (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) settings each time it is invoked.
- One of the most important things that must be completed when troubleshooting a networking issue is to find out the specific IP configuration of the variously affected hosts.
- Sometimes this information is already known when addressing is configured statically, but when a dynamic addressing method is used, the IP address of each host can potentially change often.
- The utilities that can be used to find out this IP configuration information include the ipconfig utility on Windows machines and the ifconfig utility on Linux based machines.
