What is IP address in computer, Why ip address divided in four parts?

Question

Hello Friends

Answer 1

Your IP address and the numbers associated with it mean the Class of IP. The last set of numbers identifies your computer number on that particular network. This is what's known at IPv4. They have designed IPv6 when the IP addresses for IPv4 run out.

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Answer 2

AN IP address is a number which uniquely identifies your computer on the Internet. Think of it as being like your PCs phone number. It is what one computer "dials" to connect with another.

The four parts of the IP address can be used to identify networks. Think of a phone number: it has area code, exchange, and inidividual phone. So an IP address can be separate.

Say you had the address 204.105.101.100. The 204.105 is going to be a specific network. (Say the addresses handed out by your ISP). Using those two numbers, it is possible to tell what network an IP address is on. Like you could use an area code to tell if a number is in New York or California.

The third number(101) is going to be a subnet within the 204.105 network. Like an exchange in a phone number, it tells you the phone number is not just in New York, it is in Albany.

The last number is the individual PC. In this case, you are the 100th PC on the 204.105.101 network.

The numbers have nothing to do with the colored wires in the cables. In fact, computers read the IP address as a single hexadecimal number. They do not see it has four numbers separately by dots. That is just a way that us dumb humans invented to write the number so that it is easier for us to read and remember. The computer never sees it in that form.

Answer 3

Dear Sir

IP address is a identification number which is like a address for your computer;

The four divisions are based on the path. u just check the network cable and u can find there is 4 color wires with 4 white wiree, RED. BLUE. GREEN & ORANGE each set requires a path, that path is identied as number in the computer

Answer 4

it is the Internet protocol address

Answer 5

because they wouldn't go very far with only two