Copyright © 2001 Qusay H. Mahmoud
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Naming and Routing
lTo make datagram delivery possible, each computer on the net is assigned a unique address lThis address could be symbolic (e.g. www.yahoo.com) or numeric IP (216.32.74.50) l IP addresses are 32-bit numeric identifiers containing network and host identifiers lThe identifiers uniquely identify the network and a host on that network
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