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Private IP vs. Valid IP
Name: iamsmahd Date: January 5, 2003 at 05:20:35 Pacific OS: win2k CPU/Ram: p4/256MB
Comment:
Dear guys, I am new to Network concept, and want to know that what the differences between Private IP and Valid IP are?What about Public IP in a LAN?is there any other type of IP except than those I said?
Name: samantha Date: January 5, 2003 at 12:46:08 Pacific
Reply:
There are 2 types of IP addresses: public and private. Public IP addresses are accessible from the Internet, while Private IP addresses are not. You would use private addresses in a LAN for more security, and have one computer that acts as the gateway and runs a NAT (network address translater,) which would translate the private address into a public one for Internet access.
There are reserved blocks of the IP address space for private internets:
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