Know your public IP address and your private IP address

2023-04-29 05:00:05

What is the difference between the private IP address and the public IP address on your broadband box? How to know them?

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Your high box debitdebit has a address IPaddress IP private and a public IP address. Find out what makes them different and how to know them.

Public IP address

A box has an “outward facing” IP address that materializes its address on the network InternetInternet : This is the public IP address. This is the address that “sees” for example a serverserver on which you are going to trade. It is his connection to the Net. These addresses are used by computers on the network to communicate with each other. Thus, each computer on a network has a unique IP address.

Private IP address

A box also has an “inward-facing” IP address, that is to say, allowing one or more computers to be connected. This is the private IP address.

  • The public IP address is issued by your ISP (Internet service provider) when you install and synchronize the box.
  • Some widgetswidgets also allow you to know it.

Here’s how to find out your public IP:

  • Connect to your box:
    • Go to My Services → Internet Access → Internet Connection Status
  • Or go to a site like:
  • If you are under Windows 2000, Windows XPWindows XP or Windows VistaWindows Vistago to Start / Run then type “cmd /k ipconfig /all”.
  • If you are under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 7Windows 7, Windows 8Windows 8 Windows 10, go to start / run, then type “winipcfg”.

Here is the detailed procedure under Windows to recover its private IP address:

  • go to Start → Run → Cmd
  • type the command “ipconfig /all”

The list of all the Ethernet cards on your PC then appears, with their IP addresses and the following information:

  • connection name in Windows properties;
  • MAC address of the network card;
  • address ” IPv4IPv4 from your computer.

Astuce Windows 10

  • In the taskbar, click on the icon of your connection, then select the active connection marked “Connected”;
  • In the windowwindow that opens, click the active connection again. You will then see the information relating to your connection, including your private IPv4 address.
  • Go to the “System Preferences” menu (apple icon at the top left of the screen), then open the “Network” menu.
  • Then click on your active connection, the private IP address will then be displayed in the upper right part of the window.

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