What are IP addresses?
You probably heard before some of you might know, but just to go over very briefly, when you're an
Internet or it's on a network, General, a computer has to have an IP address, an IP address, just
as ID card kind of identifies who you are when you are a network.
So IP addresses the phone numbers, just how people are going to be able to contact you.
If someone wants to call you a city with, they've got to pull it, be a no hit call or type new messages,
send it to that number.
OK, so it's also important to know that, you know, two computers have the same address, just like
you can't have the same phone number, someone else.
It's impossible.
So now you need to know, you know, how to data.
How does data travel across networks?
Now, we're going to keep this very high level just to make it very simple and just help you understand
data travels in the forms of packets.
OK, so you can think of packets like envelopes.
And inside of these envelopes is data that's just packed in there and then they're sent off.
Now, each packet, like an envelope, has two addresses attached to it.
It has a Swiss address, which is where it's coming from.
And then also it has a destination address, which is where that packet is going to go.
So now you might know, you know, at your house, you have a router that you're, you know, like Verizon
files or Comcast or someone set you up with a router that connect to the Internet.
So this router does what its name says.
It routes packets.
So the routers read the packets is send them on the correct routes to the destination address.