If you are doing a manual setup, YOU choose the IP address to allocate. Pick one close to the one your PC gets, BUT NOT THE SAME ONE.. Manual setup IPs should only be 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x ... if your PC gets a PUBLIC IP address, be careful! only manually input a PS2 IP address if you KNOW that it is yours and statically allocated to you by your ISP.
Ok - now for AUTO setup, there are situations where you want to know WHAT IP your PS2 was able to get.
The PS2 Network Adaptor setup screens do not reveal which IP address the PS2 was able to allocate, when AUTO is chosen. Sometimes it is necessary to determine the PS2s IP address in order to configure the routers firewall to allow port forwarding.
In order to determine the PS2 IP address, you need the PS2 to be behind a home router, and you do need a PC to be connected as well! If the PS2 is directly connected to the highspeed modem, it is being given a public IP address by your ISP, and you will not be able to determine what it is.
If your PS2 is behind your home router, you can either look at the router configuration pages, to either review the page of allocated DHCP IPs, or the router log, to see if the router mentioned what IP it allocated to the PS2. OR. From the PC, you can try pinging one higher and one lower than the PC address.
For example, if the PC was given IP 192.168.1.10, then try pinging 192.168.1.11 and 192.168.1.9 to see if either responds.
Please note, a network capable game must be booted up and the PS2 must be logged in! otherwise its ethernet port is not enabled!
Since you are trying to determine the IP address of the PS2 in order to configure your router firewall to open ports, it might be easier to MANUALLY configure the PS2 IP to a known address chosen by you, set the netmask, and the DNS servers..
Don't forget that some routers have a DMZ function which removes the need entirely to play with the firewall, and also removes the need to know the PS2 IP address. Check your Router manual for this.
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