On 7 Aug 2006 09:57:24 -0700, "Amanda" <amanda772008@yahoo.com> wrote in
<1154969844.540890.56550@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>:

>I'd like to get confirmation about something. If I have the DHCP from
>the router enabled, the outside world sees only one static IP address
>while each PC on the network would have different dynamic IP addresses,
>right?

The outside world sees only one _public_ ("WAN" or "Internet") IP
address. The inside machines all have different _private_ IP ("LAN") IP
addresses. The router translates traffic between the one public IP
address and the private IP addresses so that all inside machines can
share that one public IP address, which may be either _static_
(unchanging) or (more often) _dynamic_ (changing).

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