How to configure an IP address on Windows 10 - IP (Internet Protocol) address is a logical address on a computer which is a binary row of numbers consisting of 32 bits to 128 bits, the IP address function is to identify the host on the network in order to communicate with each other.
The IP address is divided into IPv4 which has a 32-bit numeric length, and also IPv6 that has a 128-bit length. For the distribution process, the IP address is divided into static IP and dynamic IP.
Static IP is an IP address that is manually configured on a computer by an administrator, while dynamic IP is obtained from the DHCP exchange process on the network, to get a dynamic IP address, of course, there must be a router that acts as a DHCP Server on the network.
In the previous tutorial I've explained how the steps of configuring an IP address on a computer using a GNU/Linux based operating system, you can read the article here (read : How to set static IP address on Linux through the terminal)
The IP address is divided into IPv4 which has a 32-bit numeric length, and also IPv6 that has a 128-bit length. For the distribution process, the IP address is divided into static IP and dynamic IP.
Static IP is an IP address that is manually configured on a computer by an administrator, while dynamic IP is obtained from the DHCP exchange process on the network, to get a dynamic IP address, of course, there must be a router that acts as a DHCP Server on the network.
It feels incomplete if I don't discuss the tutorial on how to configure IP addresses on the Windows operating system. Moreover, the Windows operating system is the most widely used computer operating system today.
How to set a static IP address on Windows 10
Let's start right away. First, select the computer icon on the taskbar, then right-click and select Open Network & Internet settings as shown below.
Then the Settings window will open, in the Network status section, click the Change adapter options menu as I marked the red box below.
After that the Network Connections window will open, in this section, all the interfaces on the computer will be displayed, both physical interfaces such as Ethernet and WLAN, or logic interfaces such as VPN.
This time we will only configure the IP address on the Ethernet interface, right-click the Ethernet interface and then select the Properties menu.
This time we will only configure the IP address on the Ethernet interface, right-click the Ethernet interface and then select the Properties menu.
In the Ethernet Properties window, click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP / IPv4) then click the Properties button.
The Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP / IPv4) Properties window will appear. In order to manually configure a static IP address, you must click the Use the following IP address and Use the following DNS server addresses options.
Then fill in the IP address, subnet mask, default gateway and DNS server in the fields provided, for more details please see the picture below.
Then fill in the IP address, subnet mask, default gateway and DNS server in the fields provided, for more details please see the picture below.
How to set a dynamic IP address on Windows 10
To configure so that your computer can get an IP address allocation automatically (dynamic), you must enable DHCP Server on the router, the DHCP Server function is to automatically distribute the allocation of IP addresses to each host on the same network.
If the DHCP Server on the router is activated, you just have to set your computer as a DHCP Client, the steps are still the same as above, but in the Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP / IPv4) Properties section, you just click the option Obtain IP address automatically and Obtain DNS Server address automatically .
For more details please see the picture below.
If the DHCP Server on the router is activated, you just have to set your computer as a DHCP Client, the steps are still the same as above, but in the Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP / IPv4) Properties section, you just click the option Obtain IP address automatically and Obtain DNS Server address automatically .
For more details please see the picture below.
The last stage is the testing stage, run the ping command at the command prompt to find out whether your computer has been successfully connected to the internet or not.
ping www.geekswarrior.com
From the ping result output above, it can be known that my computer has been successfully connected to the Internet, marked with a message "Reply from... " as shown in the image above.
Until here, I hope you have been able to configure the IP address on the Windows 10 operating system, either static IP or dynamic IP. Hopefully useful and thank you.
