Introduction to IP address
IP Address
At the network layer, we need to uniquely identify each
device on the internet to allow global communication between all devices. This
is analogous to the telephone system where each telephone subscriber has a
unique telephone number. If we consider the country code and the area code as
part of the identifying scheme
The identifying used in IP layer
of the TCP/IP protocol suit to identify each device connected to the internet
is called the internet address or IP address. An IP address is a 32 bit binary
address that uniquely and universally defines the connection of a host or a
router to the internet. Two devices cannot have the same IP address on the
internet, it is unique address. However if a device has two connection to the
internet via two networks, it has two IP addresses
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