What is the difference between a private IP and a public IP?

Asked By Margarete S Bryson 100 points N/A Posted on - 11/14/2014

What is an IP address? What is a private IP address? How can you access a private IP? In which circumstances do you need a private IP to be configured? What is a public IP? How can you access a public IP? Which are the organizations responsible for registering a public IP address?

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Answered By Shelock kate 0 points N/A #189310

What is the difference between a private IP and a public IP?

An ip address is a unique number associated with every computer 

that accesses internet. The main function of an ipaddress is to 

identify the location and network interface identification. In 

general two versions of ip addresses are present- IPv4(32 bit num)

and IPv6(128 bit num). A public IP address is an IP address that

can be accessed through internet by anyone. Network Information 

Center(NIC) and Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) are 

the organisations that are essential for registering a public

IP address.A private IP address is an IP address that is localised

to a LAN and for the Private IP address to be converted to Public 

IP address then the network has to be configured.

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