ip address query

[Rashkae]

On 10/30/2011 10:45 PM, Linux Tyro wrote:
> Then why is this happening that the two ip-addresses are so different? What
> does this really showing?
>
The 192.168.1.108 is an internal IP address.  Anything in the 
192.168.x.x 10.x.x.x is reserved for use on private networks and not 
routable on the Internet.  Typically, there is a NAT gateway (in your 
case, probably one of the so called 'routers'.) that receives a real 
Internet address from your ISP and uses NAT (Network Address 
Translation) to share that Ip with all the devices on your internal 
network configured with the 192.168.1 subnet.

The address that whatismyip shows is the real internet address that the 
ISP has granted your router.  That's the only IP address network hosts 
can see.  What goes on on the other side of the router stays in Vagas.