IP address?

What is an ip address, is it an address that is with you wherever you are like an email address or is it an address that is just on one computer? how can I use vb6 to get the ip address of the computer?

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1. Ab IP address is like your house address. So that my computer can send a packet of information to your computer, I need to know its IP address.
2. IP addresses are specific to your internet connection. They allow you to send and recieve information through the internet (or through an intranet at your home or office). You can view your IP address here: http://whatsmyip.org/ Computers sharing an internet connection will be given a different internal (aka. LAN) IP address from a "router" or "gateway" for the inside network. The outside world would see both computers using the same (WAN) IP address. LAN = local area network (inside a house, or office) WAN = wide area network (the world)
3. the finger print of u're computer
4. You can use the VBScript fucntion GetIPAddress to pull the clients IP
5. IP addresses are used to transfer information across the internet. If you type www.ibm.com into your browser, your computer resolves this friendly name into the equivalent IP Address of IBM’s webserver, and then retrieves their homepage using this IP address. While you are connected to the internet, you are assigned a unique IP address as well. To learn more go to http://ipinfo.info/index.php
6. Ip Address (Internet Protocol address) is as your telephone number. It uniquely identifies every host on a network. Just as your mailing address uniquely identifies your home, an IP address uniquely identifies a host. You can find more about ip address and protocols on: http://www.ipaddresslocation.org http://www.find-ip-address.org
7. An IP address is an unique identity number, if you want to call it that, which is assigned to your computer when it connects to a network; when it connects to the Internet, we call it "Internet IP address", if you connect your computer to a company network you get what is called a "LAN IP address" or "Internal IP address". IP addresses are usually in the form of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (replace xxx with numbers). Depending on how your Internet Service Provider or your company works, you might get the same IP address everytime or different one everytime you connect. IP addresses are usually used to keep a track of you over the Internet or the company and to ensure the correct data reaches the correct computer :)