25 May 2018

What is IP? 255.255.255.0


IP (Internet Protocol) is a widely used term of network world. It is most popular protocol of TCP/IP. In 1970 IP was developed. The primary role of IP is to provide logical address and Structured networking and support the routine of traffic to its destination. Now a new generation IP is on demand. IP supports the ability to send to a group via multi casting.  IP provides the network layer addressing and function for the TCP/IP protocol stack.

Internet Protocol:

If a device want to communicate using TCP/IP, its needs an IP address. When the device has an IP address, its able to send and receive IP Packets any device that can send and receive IP packets its called IP host.
IP address consist of 32 bit number, usually written in dotted decimal notation. The decimal part of the term comes from the fact that each byte (8 bits) of the 32 bit IP address shown as decimal equivalent. The four resulting decimal number are written in sequence, with dots or decimal points.
example :  192.168.0.1 is an IP address written in dotted decimal form, but actually binary version is 11000000 10101000 00000000 00000001
each 8 bit block is converted to decimal and the decimal value are separated with periods or dots.

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