Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Re: Feedback about documents

From: Lee <ler762@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2025 18:05:54 -0400
On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM Jaap Keuter via Wireshark-dev wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Hope this helps: https://www.iana.org/help/private-addresses

or this
https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4-special-registry/iana-ipv4-special-registry.xhtml

> Anyway, is 10.x.x.x government?

no

> And why would my device IP be such?

because there aren't enough IPv4 addresses available for everyone that
wants one.  NAT (network address translation) was a bandaid for not
enough ipv4 addresses; you should use ipv6

Regards
Lee