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What Is a Local IP Address?

Friday June 27, 2008
A local IP address is a network device's IP address intended to be used by other computers on a LAN to identify it. A local IP address is often a private IP address, although computers connected directly to the Internet via cable modem, for example, are given public addresses. Note that local IP addresses only loosely relate to geographic location.
See also - What's My IP Address?
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