Different IP on each workstation
It seems that some offices all the workstations have the same IP to the outside world, and some have it where each workstation has it's own IP. What are the differences in hardware and/or software between these two?
If i understand your doubt is why the workstations inside your private network have different IP´s.
That is because each machine needs to have a unique IP, you need to think as if each IP corresponded to a single apartment in a building, for instance, 1A has an IP, 1B has another IP, 2A as another IP and so on. The public IP will correspond to the building door from where all the apartments need to get in or get out, thats why the Outside world sees your building door and not the apartments door. This process is called the NAT ( Network Address translation ).
I hope this can clarified your question.
Regards
That is because each machine needs to have a unique IP, you need to think as if each IP corresponded to a single apartment in a building, for instance, 1A has an IP, 1B has another IP, 2A as another IP and so on. The public IP will correspond to the building door from where all the apartments need to get in or get out, thats why the Outside world sees your building door and not the apartments door. This process is called the NAT ( Network Address translation ).
I hope this can clarified your question.
Regards
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Yes, that makes perfect sense. I'll forward this to my wife who is trying to print coupons and can only do 2 per IP. :)
Hmmm.
Can you clarify what do you want to accomplish? Or what do you want to know.
Sorry if I misunderstood.
Can you clarify what do you want to accomplish? Or what do you want to know.
Sorry if I misunderstood.
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My wife was wondering if we could set up our home network so that all the computers had different IPs so that she could go to this coupon website and print 2 coupons from each of our home computers.
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This is generally something handled by the router. First you would need to purchase enough IP addresses (usually purchased in a range) and then set up a route for each external address to go to a different internal address (workstation).
What you are attempting to accomplish would determine what is needed. For example, you have a workstation acting like a web server then you would probably want it to have it's own external IP.