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Article: Nutter's Help Desk: Private vs. public IP numbers.(whether to use ISP-supplied public IP addresses or a private IP address)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
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- Network World
- Article date:
- March 15, 1999
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Ron Nutter, a Master Certified Novell Engineer and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer in the Lexington, Ky., area tracks down the answers to your questions. Call (800) 622-1108, Ext. 476, or send your questions to helpdesk@networkref.com.
We are preparing to implement TCP/IP on our network. One of the questions that has come up is whether to use the public IP addresses that will be assigned to us by our ISP or to go with a private IP address configuration. Which would be best?
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I recommend using a combination, especially since using a public IP address on both sides of a router or firewall to an ISP may be hard to do due given ...