how do i find my ip address?
Depends what kind of operating system you are running.
You can run 'ipconfig' on a Windows box.
On Linux and other Unixes, you can usually use the ifconfig command,
here is an example from Linux:
ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:25:8F:2A:14
inet addr:9.47.97.39 Bcast:9.47.97.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: 2002:92f:6110:1:211:25ff:fe8f:2a14/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::211:25ff:fe8f:2a14/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5419253 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:443407 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:486376076 (463.8 MiB) TX bytes:216468296 (206.4 MiB)