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Introduction to Networking | Network Basics for Beginners – IP addresses

IP addresses (IPv4 – IPv6):
Logically addresses, meaning that they can change.
Can point to one computer one day and another the next.

For more see: https://vinsloev.com/

Public vs private IP

IPv4:
32 bit addresses
Computers only understand binary
A IPV4 address is divided into 4 sets of 8 binarys.

IPv4 problems:
Only 4 billion addresses.
The world have too many connected devices.

IPv6 – The solution:

128 Bits
Hexadecimal format
Each character is 4 Binarys

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Alice AUSTIN

Alice AUSTIN is studying Cisco Systems Engineering. He has passion with both hardware and software and writes articles and reviews for many IT websites.

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