what's a "real ip"

[Kim Holburn]

It could mean a non-virtual IP!!

At 09:09 AM 19/01/2002 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>At a guess it refers to an IP address that is publically routable and not
>one of the IPs refered to in RFC1918, ie. reserved for private routing.
>
>RFC1918 reserves the following IP ranges as never being allocated on the
>public Internet and hence they can be used on private intranets:
>
>10.0.0.0/8      10.0.0.0 thru 10.255.255.255
>172.16.0.0/12   172.16.0.0 thru 172.31.255.255
>192.168.0.0/16  192.168.0.0 thru 192.168.255.255
>
>On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 mn_x at e-apollo.lv wrote:
>
>> what does a "real ip" mean?
>>
>>
>
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