Your home network right now probably looks like this:

Router: 192.168.1.1

Laptop: 192.168.1.15

Phone: 192.168.1.22

None of those addresses are visible to the internet.

They're private. Reusable. Invisible from outside.

But your router has a second identity.

A public IP that the internet actually sees.

The translation between those two worlds is called NAT.

Understanding this changes how you think about network attacks and defenses.

Full breakdown in my latest article 👇