Wednesday, May 8, 2013

IP address

1. What is the IP address?
    An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, 
    printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.

    An IP address serves two principal functions
   1. Identification
   2. Addressing

Internet Protocol version
  1. Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
  2. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)

It is the fourth version in the development of the Internet Protocol (IP) and the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed.

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

It is the latest revision of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet.

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