do u get two types of ip addresses, a guy told me that theres computer ip addres and a internet ip address?

Question

if so what the difference, i know that yout ip address always changes, does your 'computer ip' change too.
lol. tell me whats up with ip addresses

thnx
:)

Answer 1

As Monty Python Said- IPV6 or IPV4?
Don't fall of the cliff!

IPV6 address look like a MAC address and are in Hex with ( : )between and look like this roughly- fe:16:b4:00:12:a1:d2:32- They are universal and in the IPV6 world every body on the internet has their own unchanging for ever. There are trillions of posibilities.

IPV 4 address look like this 192.168.1.2, they are seperated into classes and each class has specific uses allowed. the ones beginning with 192 or 173 are PRIVATE and cannot be used on the internet hence you will see these on private networks like your home computer or router. your DSL/Cable modem cannot be on the same address as your router or they will not work

IPV4 gives addresses in two ways Stataic=Permanently assigned, Dynamic- Assigned by DHCP for a certain amount of time(Leased) Your ISP and your router generally perform DHCP from a reserved pool of addresses stored in their memory.

IPV4 was thought to be insufficient for world needs because it only offers a billion addresses so development of IPV6 was started, just when the math boys figured out that "bit barrowing" renamed as subnetting allows an infinite number of IPV4 addresses. Your "Subnet Mask" now becomes hyper critical for network communication to work and can have no errors when you input it.

Anything further requires College with Advanced algebra and Computer networking. The Cisco Academy is really good but a bit expensive. I did take that Course.

Jack

Answer 2

If your computer is attached to a router, you will have one IP address that is used to talk between computers on your side of the router (your local network). When you go out to the Internet, you use a second IP address, which is actually the address of the router. All computers attached to your router use that same Internet IP address. The router then "routes" all Internet traffic to the correct PC attached to it.

Your routers IP address may (or may not) change regularly depending on how your ISP decides to do it.

Your local IP address is managed by your own router. You can set it to always use the same IP for each machine, or to change it every reboot, or every day, or every week, etc.

Answer 3

You computer IP address stays the same. I believe you internet IP address changes as you change services, etc.

Answer 4

What he meant was private IP address and public IP addresses. Private IP addresses are suitable for internal address allocation only. You can recognize them in any of the following formats:

1) 10.X.X.X (class A)
2) 172.X.X (class B)
3) 192.X.X.X (class C).

The rests are considered public IP addresses. You need one of these if your host will be exposed to the internet.

Answer 5

No, there is only one IP address assigned to your computer, the other one he is talking about is the MAC address. The IP address is the address assigned to your computer by Comcast (or AOL, etc.) adn the MAC address is a permenant address on your NIC card inside the computer. (NIC stands for Network Interface Card). The IP address can change, but the NIC address never changes. Ever.

Answer 6

if your on cable your ip almost never changes if your on dialup it changes every time you connect the only time you have 2 ip addys is if you have a routor and cable internet then your ip ont he computer would look like so 192.168.1.100 or 192.168.0.100 and your computer ip would be diff