https://www.jpsdomain.org/tags/rfc1918/index.html Hugo en-us https://www.jpsdomain.org/networking/nat/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.jpsdomain.org/networking/nat/index.html Background An IP (Internet Protocol) Address is a 32-bit number broken up into “quads” of 1 byte each, separated by dots. 1 byte is 8 bits which in decimal is a number in the range 0 to 255. For example, 10.234.56.71 is an IP Address. There are only so many “real” IP addresses, and they are (and have been) perpetually very close to being used up and thus are very difficult to get.