IP Address

[rod1949]

In a workplace/office situation is your IP address just to/at the main box or server or whatever its called or is it to the individual PC on your desk ?

[RufflyRustic]

The IP is for your computer. It identifies the pc on your work network. It must be unique to your work network.

How your pc is 'seen' outside of your workplace will depend on how the security is setup there.

cheers
Wendy

[Ianab]

Generally each PC will have it's own IP address, but on the internal side of most networks you use one of the 'private' ranges, like 192.168.*.*. These ranges are not assigned to public internet sites, so are free to use within your own network.

Then the gateway machine (server / router / firewall box) will be given a public IP address that can communicate with the rest of the internet and an internal IP in the private range on another interface.

The router handles the address translation between machines on your local network and the rest of the internet. So your machine has an IP address, but it's generally not visible to the rest of the net, your company will have one or more external IP addresses for external communications.

When you post on a web site like this the IP thats reported is generally the public one of your router or firewall box. When you are on dial-up etc then the IP address is assigned directly to your own PC.

Cheers

Ian

[rod1949]

Generally each PC will have it's own IP address, but on the internal side of most networks you use one of the 'private' ranges, like 192.168.*.*. These ranges are not assigned to public internet sites, so are free to use within your own network.

Then the gateway machine (server / router / firewall box) will be given a public IP address that can communicate with the rest of the internet and an internal IP in the private range on another interface.

The router handles the address translation between machines on your local network and the rest of the internet. So your machine has an IP address, but it's generally not visible to the rest of the net, your company will have one or more external IP addresses for external communications.

When you post on a web site like this the IP thats reported is generally the public one of your router or firewall box. When you are on dial-up etc then the IP address is assigned directly to your own PC.

Cheers

Ian

Thanks Ian.
So just to clarify it for my simple mind it sounds like when one phones the main telephone number of a business the operator sends my call to the appropriate extension to which on the outside we don't see, we only see the main telephone number.

[Gra]

got it in one Rod