In this section, we'll cover IP config, and Windows administrator command prompt. So let's do that. Let's go ahead and click Start and type cmd. I'm going to right click on the application and hit Run as administrator. Here, we're back in command prompt. Let's go ahead and change the color as we did in the first video.
Now we could set command prompt to just come up is bright yellow. But I like to not say sort of default setting so it kind of keeps us on our toes. Where else are our commands. So what is IP config? Well, IP config is a command in Windows. As stated before that we can use in the command prompt to gather very basic networking information.
Our IP P address what network we're on with subnet mask, or default gateway, things like that. So let's go ahead and take a look at the command IP config. I'm going to hit Enter. And as you can see, we got some very basic information here. We now know our default gateway, basically our router, the subnet mask, and also the ipv4 address or our IP address of the system that we're on right now. And this is very helpful information.
So what I've started to do over here, if you look on the desktop, there's a file called g info for general info that we gather using our commands. I'm going to open that file. As you can see here, we have our help switch that we went over the host name and also the Who am I. So let's go ahead and add IP config. going to hit enter one last time here. And I'm going to put our IP address, which is 192 dot 168 dot zero dot 154.
Now we have our IP address of our system. I'm going to switch back over to command prompt. And let's take a look at some of the various switches that we can use using IP config to type IP config, forward slash and question mark and hit enter. As we scroll down, we see there's a various amount of switches that we can use with this command. There's IP config, all release renew flush DNS. So class Id do things of different sorts.
But let's go ahead and type IP config all and see what results we get on type IP config, forward slash all and hit enter Now we have a lot more information than we got in just the basic IP config command that we use. We have our hostname, which actually where we found the information here, we have our our domain, node type, different things like that we have our MAC address, which also comes in handy for identifying RPC DHCP settings. Other media that let's just say we had two wireless card or three wireless cards would have this information for all networking on the system. So this is this, this has been a switch IP config. I hope you guys enjoyed this course. I will see you again in the next one.