2006-07-08 17:01:15 · 7 answers · asked by Tarlochan S 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
See if this answers your question:
http://www.jpsdomain.org/networking/nat.html
2006-07-08 17:05:15 · answer #1 · answered by gobigblu9 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are no legal consequences - but there are some technical consequences. If a computer on your LAN tries to get to a private server that is hosted on your LAN that uses public IP address range but it happens to be the same as IP address of a real world server - your router may have difficulty routing the packets correctly. It may attempt to send the packets to the outside world and it may route them locally. It isn't an issue for anyone else - it's just a problem for you. I have in the past seen private servers configured with public IP addresses in a real world scenario. The person who set them up clearly did not know what they were doing.
2016-03-26 22:13:33 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By private it just means the addresses will not be routed by Internet routers. You can use these in your own internal network and you have to NAT them to a public address to connect to the Internet.
The designated private IP subnets are:
10.x.x.x
172.16.x.x
192.168.x.x
127.0.0.1 is the local loopback address, you cannot use it to communicate with other computers, only your own PC.
Amended: 169.254.x.x is not really a private address space it is defined as:
This is the "link local" block. It is allocated for communication between hosts on a single link. Hosts obtain these addresses by auto-configuration, such as when a DHCP server may not be found.
You should not use this as a private space but you can if you choose to. Actually behind a NAT router you could use any public IP subnet if you choose to, you just can't let it connect directly to the Internet, but it might be confusing.
2006-07-08 17:21:44 · answer #3 · answered by netguru 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually...none of those are entirely correct:
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10.0.0.0/8) Class A
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16.0.0/12) 16 Class Bs
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168.0.0/16) 256 Class Cs
169.254.0.0 - 169.254.255.255 (169.254.0.0/16) 256 Class Cs
Are the currently designated private networks, with 127.0.0.1 as a loopback.
2006-07-08 17:28:48 · answer #4 · answered by Brian S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Private:
127.0.*.*
192.168.*.*
10.*.*.*
Public: everything else up to 254 in every octave.
2006-07-08 17:04:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is just a guess, but I'm guessing 1.0.1.1 to 255.255.255.255 is the range
2006-07-08 17:05:32 · answer #6 · answered by dashwarts 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
192.168.*.*
172.16.*.*
10.*.*.*
and the rest of IPs are public up to 254.254.254.254
2006-07-08 17:16:38 · answer #7 · answered by isp_85 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋