"I am not a number. I am a free man!" Earlier this year,the availability of Internet addresses (of the 104.207.205.4 format) in their old form ran dry, much like fossil fuel will in the future. The ...

In this chapter, you will learn about the addressing used in IPv4 and IPv6. We'll assign addresses of both types to various interfaces on the hosts and routers of the Illustrated Network. We'll ...

An Internet Protocol address is a number that identifies a device in a network, though the term is often used to refer to a device on the Internet itself. An IP address is vital for transferring data ...

Networks, and the internet, don't identify computers (of any size, even your smartphone) by the name you give them. Computers prefer numbers, and the numbers they use as identifiers are called IP ...

If your company network is having problems and you need to troubleshoot it, you also need to know some basic information about the computers on the network. Internet Protocol is the underlying ...