Copyright © 2001
Qusay H. Mahmoud
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
l