You can use the  network utility application to see your network settings. I 
believe you can make some changes using this tool as well. It is in the 
utilities folder. When I hooked up my mac to the ethernet, I turned off the 
airport mode for network. It is easy to turn on or turn off.

Kev
On Jul 5, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Josh Kennedy wrote:

> Hi
> 
> How do I use the mac to get my default gateway, IP address of my wifi router 
> and other advanced information like that? Also if I gotta take my macbook 
> over to the router, plug it in via ethernet to fix it, is it easy to tell the 
> mac that I'm connecting through ethernet rather than wifi? and then I'll have 
> to find out the or retrieve the IP address of my modem or my router. 
> Any help on this would be appreciated. in windows I'd go to the command 
> prompt, type ipconfig and hit enter to get such information. 
> 
> Josh
> 
> Josh Kennedy
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