Is the IP address white?

Question

Computer networks

A couple of days ago I connected a white IP service from a provider. An SMS came that the address 10.xxx.xxx.xx was assigned. As far as I know, private IP addresses start with 10, not white ones. Is there an error here? The WAN IP router settings have the same address. On 2ip, all network devices receive the address 188.xxx.xxx.xx. The IP address 10.ххх.хх.хх does not change when the router is rebooted. Ports cannot be opened, neither through a direct connection, nor through a router. The Port Forwarder utility, when connected directly, shows that I am connected to some router at the same IP address 10.xxx.xxx.xx, and that one is already accessing the network with IP 188.xxx.xxx.xx .. Question: is it white IP? And if so, why can't open ports?

Answer 1

Judging by the description, you do not have a public "white", but a private "gray".
White IP can change (static IP does not change), but must be accessible from the Internet, that is, the IP from which you access the Internet (which is shown by services like 2ip) and must be assigned on the router as WAN IP.
https://help.keenetic.com/hc/ru/articles/213965789...

Answer 2

Well, it means that the service did not connect and it's worth kicking the provider.
In rare cases, especially smart providers do not give a public address to the subscriber's interface, but link the external address 1 to 1 to the internal one. This is typical for pioneernets, local providers.

Answer 3

No. 10.0.0.0/8 is the private address range.

Answer 4

Apparently the provider either did not give you a white IP or did not understand / did not want to understand you. As it was correctly pointed out above - 10 is a private subnet.
But on mobile networks, for example, on a router, you will see just a gray subnet, then it is routed to a white IP. (It was like that on my megaphone)
In home providers, in theory, they should see a white IP on the WAN. If this is not some kind of thread Rostelecom \ home ru ... there is ppoe there, maybe they have implemented it like mobile phones

Answer 5

Hello. Are you by any chance from St. Petersburg? PrometheusHome? I recently also requested a change of white ip, I had it on the wan interface and on the Internet showed white ip 188.ххх.ххх.ххх. After the appeal, the address was changed, but on the wan interface it appeared the same as your address 10.ххх.хх.хх. To my questions and how so, in the TP they answered that you try to reconfigure your services to 10.xxx.xxx.xx (I had vpn and other things on wan). Reconfigured and everything really worked. This is most likely, as it was said above, nat 1 to 1. Maybe someone knows why the provider has such changes?