Ip and Router question

criznazy53 · Post by **criznazy53** » July 15th, 2005, 9:39 pm

My question is regarding ip addresses and routers So an ISP will dynamically give one ip address per household. If i have a router connected to the one ip address that is given to my house, the router then uses Network Address Translation. From my understanding people outside my household cannot see my ip address(es) that were generated from the NAT. is that true? i'm assuming that the ip address that the router creates is not unique amongst all the ip addresses in the world?? I was wondering how this works? Can someone one in india using a router and having bought only one ip address for his house communicate with my computer that has an ip address from my router given that my household also is only given one ip address?

Xitech · Post by **Xitech** » July 19th, 2005, 3:22 am

Your router makes one ip address that hides all the addresses of the other computers hooked up to it unless you make it do otherwise. Your isp gives your router instructions to use only a specific range of ip addresses, so yours is unique.