

On the one side this is considered a security enhancement because an external Internet host cannot directly communicate with an internal host. Private IP addresses can only be reached within a closed network and are not directly accessible from the outer Internet. 192.168.16.1 belongs to the private IP address space 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 ( 192.168.0.0/16 ).Ī private IP address is, in contrast to a public IP address, not allocated to a specific organization, but can be used by anyone without approval from a regional Internet registry.
