I’ve been diving into the public and private IP addresses, as I could understand public IP addresses are assigned by Internet Service Providers, but I couldn’t understand how and by whom are private IP addresses assigned. I couldn’t understand as well what’s the purpose of private IP addresses.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you for helping me out.
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You just do whatever you want. Everyone on earth is free to use 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x for anything in their own network. (or the 172 class B one no one likes)
So there is like a million people all using [192.168.168.1](https://192.168.168.1) as their router, or [10.10.10.10](https://10.10.10.10) as their computer. You can do whatever you want, hand assign them, have a dhcp server hand them out on your network. whatever. They won’t cross the real internet so inside your own network anything is fine.
Everyone can use them and everyone uses the same ones and it’s fine.
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