What is IP address ?

Answer 1

The Internet Protocol (IP) is a network-layer (Layer 3) protocol that contains addressing information and some control information that enables packets to be routed. IP is documented in RFC 791 and is the primary network-layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite. Along with the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), IP represents the heart of the Internet protocols. IP has two primary responsibilities: providing connectionless, best-effort delivery of datagrams through an internetwork; and providing fragmentation and reassembly of datagrams to support data links with different maximum-transmission unit (MTU) sizes.

Answer 2

An IP address is an address used in the TCP/IP protocol to communicate between two computers. 192.168.1.1 is an example of an IP address. IP (Internet Protocol) specifies a packet format and addressing. Each packet sent over an IP netowrk conforms to this format and contains the IP addresses of the sender of the packet and the intended receiver of the packet. This is used by routers to route/forward the packet through the internet from the sender to the recipient. This should not be confused with an Ethernet address. EA:95:12:9D:56:34 is an example of what an Ethernet address looks like. Ethernet is used to create a LAN (Local Area Network). If you think of a TCP/IP message as a "letter", then an Ethernet message would be like an "envelope" for your letter. If you want to send a "letter" (TCP/IP) to a computer on a different LAN, you would "mail" your "letter" in an "envelope" (Ethernet) addressed to your router. The router opens the letter to find out who it goes to and puts it in another "envelope" addressed to the next router on the way to the intended recipient.

Answer 3

Internet Protocol (IP) is a data-oriented protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork.

IP is a network layer protocol in the internet protocol suite and is encapsulated in a data link layer protocol (e.g., Ethernet). As a lower layer protocol, IP provides the service of communicable unique global addressing amongst computers. This implies that the data link layer need not provide this service. Ethernet provides globally unique addresses except it is not globally communicable (i.e., two arbitrarily chosen Ethernet devices will only be able to communicate if they are on the same bus). The difference is that IP is concerned with the final destination of data packets. Ethernet is concerned with only the next device (computer, router, etc.) in the chain. The final destination and next device could be one and the same (if they are on the same bus) but the final destination could be on the other side of the world.

Answer 4

The easiest way to explain it would a internet telephone number.
If you knew the IP (Internet Protocol) number you could enter it and go directly to a website. Just like you know your home telephone number you can just punch it in.
If you don't know someone's telephone number how would you know there number? Simple you use their name to find their number. When you input a web address the ISP's DNS sever locates the IP address assigned to that number then connects you to it.
While an IP address is not really a telephone number the example gives you an idea of how it works.
I hope I did not confuse you.

Answer 5

The IP address is the physical address of a computer on a network. It is a string of numbers separated by dots. It looks something like: 128.74.0.1

Answer 6

Computer networks and the internet work much like a post office system. Your IP address is your computer's unique registered address on an network so that 'packets' of information can be addressed to your computer.

Yes they really are called packets.

Answer 7

It is what follows your computer around while surfing.
Your IP address is the address information is sent to
when you go online.
similar to caller ID. on your phone.

Answer 8

Internet Provider address.
just like you have your home address, your computer has its own IP address depending on which internet provider/router/modem you use.

Answer 9

It is the address your "Internet Provider" assigns so you can connect to the internet.

Answer 10

internet service provider it alows u to get on the internet