please facilitate.
i am still a newb near computer and i am wondering what an IP represents.
Answers:
the computer you are on. It's close to a house address or a phone number. In writ for someone to chitchat to you, they requirement to know your phone number or house address. In lay down for a computer to convey or recieve information to your computer it requests to know your IP address, which is the computer you are on.
Depending on if you are referring to a WAN IP (internet ip) or a LAN IP (local ip), it any represents the address assigned to the introduce yourself (if you hold a home lattice, your internet ip is assigned to your modem otherwise it's assigned to you computer) you are on or the address assigned to your computer by the gridiron (again, if you hold a home gridiron, your computer is assigned an address from the router, otherwise is it your internet ip) you are on (respectively).
hope that make the sense for you reading it that it did for me when i wrote it :)
- hagakure
An IP address have two parts: the identifier of a distinctive see on the Internet and an identifier of the singular device (which can be a server or a workstation) inwardly that exchange cards. On the Internet itself - explicitly, between the router that move packet from one point to another along the route - lone the introduce yourself fragment of the address is looked at.