What is an local IP address?

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What is a local IP address

Answer 1

A private IP address is one on the LAN (local area network) side or private side of the router.  The router will not route this IP address out its public side.  It will translate the private IP address to its WAN (wide area network) public IP address and router the traffic out with the public IP address being used; replies back to that WAN IP address are then translated by the router to the private IP address.  This protects the private network by not providing private IP addresses and by blocking incoming traffic that the router does not recognize as replies to specific requests.

Private IP addresses have defined numbering schemes.  The most common household and small business networks use a format 192.168.x.y wiht a 24 bit subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.  In this case x can range from 0 - 254 and the most common are 0 and 1; y can range from 1 - 254.  No two devices on the LAN side can have the same value for y and all devices on the LAN side have the same values for x in simple networks.

The IP address is an identifier much like a phone #

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Local usually refers to the PC your at. the Local Host. The range of private IP address are designated name.local when setting up a private domain on a server.

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Answer 4

There is local and private IP. The local IP is the ip you use on your local computers like when you connecting more computers on your router itr gives you an ip that you can communicate inside its like 192.168.1.1 starting from there. When you connecting to the internet there is an IP that your isp provided to your line and you then using the net.

Answer 5

An IP address of a device within your network. It is essentially the 'name' of your computer within this network.