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DID YOU KNOW YOU HAVE A PRIVATE IP ADDRESS?



If you were searching for information on an IP address such as 192.168.1.1 or
10.0.0.1, you’re on the right page. Because you’re about to learn something that
confuses almost anyone trying to learn about IP addresses.

But if you read on, you’ll see it doesn’t have to be confusing.

This article is about what private IP addresses are. Before you learn about
private IP addresses, you will also need to know about public IP addresses,
which you should know a little about already if you’re reading this article.
Lucky for you, that’s something fairly easy to explain.

The IP address you see on our home page—that looks like this—24.156.99.202, is
an example of a public IP address. If you’ve ever wondered “what is a public
IP,” now you know. It’s that simple.

Now, about that other kind of IP address…


WHAT’S A PRIVATE IP ADDRESS?

Home routers have their local address set to a default, private IP address
number. It’s usually the same address for the other models from that
manufacturer, and it can be seen in the manufacturer’s documentation.

Who knew?

Actually, you should welcome your private IP

Here’s a look at the default private (also called “local”) IP addresses for
popular brands of routers:

 * Linksys routers use 192.168.1.1
 * D-Link and NETGEAR routers are set to 192.168.0.1
 * Cisco routers use either 192.168.10.2, 192.168.1.254 or 192.168.1.1
 * Belkin and SMC routers often use 192.168.2.1

Let’s go back to public IP addresses for a second…




HOW YOU CONNECT TO THE WORLD.

Your public IP address is the IP address that someone on the other end of your
Internet activity would see (if they bothered to look for it). That’s the only
reason it’s known as a public IP address.



With traditional mail, when you send a letter, you have to know the address to
send it to—such as “1234 Main Street,”—so that the postman knows which street
and which house to take it to.

The Internet works similarly, except it directs your personal activity (emails,
answers to Google inquiries, etc.), and forwards the electronic messages to your
computer’s address.

You couldn’t do much without a public IP address. It’s your passport to the
Internet.


 


PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. WORKING TOGETHER TO GET YOU CONNECTED.

In theory, your computer must have its own unique IP address so that it will
only receive the information that is meant for you.



However, that’s not how it works out, because of one major exception—network
computers that are linked to a router and share the same public IP address.

Yes. If you have a router, you have a private IP address.

And here’s how it works…


RESERVED FOR PRIVATE NETWORKS.

The organizations that distribute IP addresses to the world reserves a range of
IP addresses for private networks.

 * 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255 (65,536 IP addresses)
 * 172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255 (1,048,576 IP addresses)
 * 10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255 (16,777,216 IP addresses)

Your simple home network, with its router at the center and computers connected
to it—wired or wireless—classifies as one of those networks.

Your router—once it makes its Internet connection through your Internet Service
Provider—sends Internet activity to any computer connected to your router, and
is the basis of a networking innovation called a Network Address Translation
(NAT).

 * NAT is a process in which your router changes your private IP Address into a
   public one so that it can send your traffic over the Internet, keeping track
   of the changes in the process.
 * When the information comes back to your router, it reverses the change—from a
   real IP address into a private one—and forwards the traffic back to your
   computer.

In other words, the router connects to the other devices (usually desktops,
laptops and tablets).

Your private IP is just that. Private.

That’s the point: Your private address is just for your router, your network,
and you.

The private address ranges in a network don’t have to be synchronized with the
rest of the world and the Internet.

As a matter of fact, the private address range can be used by more than one
address. A network administrator using these private addresses has more room for
subnetting, and many more assignable addresses.

The private IP address does one job for your home network.

These blocks of addresses can be used by a private network. Even if your
neighbor is using the exact same addresses, it won’t cause a problem, because
that’s HIS or HER network, not yours.

Don’t let that confuse you.

You see, these private addresses are known as non-routable addresses. The
networking on the Internet routes Internet activity connected to your public IP
address only, not your private IP.

How Private and public IP addresses work together.


FOUR KEY TAKEAWAYS

To wrap up our discussion about public and private IP addresses, keep these four
ideas in mind:

Private IP addresses are untracked and unrestricted. WhatIsMyIPaddess.com cannot
geographically locate a user’s computer by their private IP address.

 
 

It is perfectly normal to see traffic from these numbers if you have a small
home or office network. By default, most routers and access points use these
numbers to assign to your local computers. It is most likely these numbers
represent computers on your own internal network.

 
 

If you see these numbers in the headers of an unsolicited email, they usually
indicate transit between servers within a corporate network or ISP. Again, they
are not useful in identifying the origin of an email. In such cases, you can
usually find the true origin by looking for the earliest “Received” mail header.

 
 

The traffic does not come from the IANA (the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority), a non-government, Internet-specific organization that gives out
(assigns and allocates) IP addresses. As the authority for IP addresses, they do
not use or operate them, and they are not the source of the traffic.


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