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What should WAN IP be?
A public or WAN (wide area network) IP is an address which can be routed over the internet. In IPv4, it will start by any number other than 192, 10, 172, 1 or 255. Even your router – the device connecting your LAN to the internet – has a WAN IP adress. You can see your WAN IP in your router, or use web services.
Who is WAN IP?
(Wide Area Network Internet Protocol address) The WAN IP is the IP address assigned to the Internet-facing (public-facing) side of a network by the network administrator in a large enterprise or by an ISP.
Is WAN IP the same as public IP?
Your WAN address is your public address, but you are yourself using something that makes it look like you are accessing the internet somewhere else. One example is a proxy server which uses the 182-address to access the internet. A website telling you what your public IP is would see the 182 address.
Can a Wan ip be assigned to a LAN IP?
Once you configured WAN interface, you have access to internet. Now the ISP provided you a range of STATIC IPs, which you can assign to your servers, video conferencing equipments or for whatever service where a static IP is useful. For the ISP, the static IP range they provided to you, they mention it as LAN for their convenience.
Are there any IP addresses that are not allowed on the public Internet?
Some IP addresses are not allowed on the public Internet, they are reserved for internal (LAN side) use only. That is, you can, and should, use them in your home or office. IP addresses that start with 192.168 are on this reserved list. So too are all the IP addresses that start with 10.
What is the IP address of my ISP?
Your ISP LAN block are your “public” IP addresses that you’ll use on the outside of your firewall, web server, and so on. Your network number is 181.71.171.32 – that’s unusable. Usable range is .33 (your gateway) to .38.
What is the IP address of an ISP Lan block?
Your ISP LAN block are your “public” IP addresses that you’ll use on the outside of your firewall, web server, and so on. Your network number is 181.71.171.32 – that’s unusable. Usable range is .33 (your gateway) to .38. The .39 is your broadcast address on that subnet.