IP ADDRESS

IP Addresses are made up of four parts/can be broken down into four parts.For example 192.168.1.1 can be broken down into 192,168,1 and 1.Each of these represent 8 bits(1 byte).Each of the parts contains numbers ranging from 0-255.
IP Address are divided into five classes which are:-


Netid depicts the network of a device(node) and the Hostid depicts the actual device.

which is in the form of alphabets and characters,also represents an IP Address.For example go to command prompt in windows and type 'ping google.com' and hit enter.Then the ip which you will get,write that ip in the address bar of your browser and hit enter and you will reach google.