A little help to shows the "host address" in the detailed view of the Control Panel \ Network

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  1. JeepWillys58

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  2. Carlos Detweiller

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    AFAIK, nothing will appear here for your LAN and Wifi connections because they are not host-based (they are peer networks). That column would show the host name or phone number for Dial-up and other host-based connections.
     
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    Thank you my friend @Carlos Detweiller

    I hope tha you and all yours be safe and healty now and always...

    And can you tell me if is possible show in this panel the ip address of lan and Wifi connections?

    Thanks in advanced.

    Offtopic: Are you Brazilian?

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  4. Carlos Detweiller

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    #4 Carlos Detweiller, Jun 20, 2021
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    No. What should it show exactly? These days, you are behind a router (NAT device), separating you LAN from the public Internet. Your own LAN IP is known. The LAN/WLAN itself does not have any Host IP to show.
    In case you want to show the IP that specific adapter is listening on, consider, this shows networks, not adapters. IPs do not apply here, except for direct connections to a host (like we used to do when modems were the way to get to the internet and consumer routers didn't exist).

    Example: With a pure dial-up modem, you dialed the phone number of your ISP, or the number of another provider offering these phone dial-up internet services (there were countless ones). Once connected, that would be the number it showed in the Host number column.
    Broadband uses routers, and only the router knows the IP or phone number, if there even is one.

    Offtopic: No.
     
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    I thought there would be some way to make this field show the internal network address used by the network interface, from what you explained then, it is currently completely useless in case of a connection routed through some switch or router.

    Just one more question taking advantage of your knowledge, would you be able to tell me where this information is shown in the Windows registry?

    I am grateful for the learning and for taking the time to answer my question.

    A big hug.

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  6. Carlos Detweiller

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    If you just want to look it up, open a command prompt and type
    Code:
    ipconfig /all
    The output can be stored in a text file and processed further (or a more advanced user than me could process it through a pipe).

    There are also other commands I frequently use to show that info:

    IPv4:
    Code:
    netsh int ipv4 show ipaddr
    IPv6:
    Code:
    netsh int ipv6 show addr

    In the registry, it's stored under the following keys:

    IPv4 - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces
    IPv6 - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\TCPIP6\Parameters\Interfaces

    Unfortunately, there can be many dead interfaces stored there. Look up the correct ones under
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters\Adapters
     
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