what's a "real ip"

[Howard Lowndes]

Which is...?

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Kim Holburn wrote:

> 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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