IP Address

Current IP address is of 4 bytes 932 bits) and can have 4,294,467,295 addresses. IP version 6 will use 16 bytes to address in future.

The 4 byte IP addresses is of four decimal numbers separated by dots. E.g. : 134.220.198.170. Each number can be separated by a byte. E.g. : 10000110.

IP address consists of two parts - network portion and the host portion. The network portion routes packets between networks while the host portion identifies a particular device on the host network.