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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