How Does Data Know Where To Go ?
IP Address Mostly every devices have Internet Protocol (IP) Address an example of IPv4 address is 192.168.1.1 There are actually 4 octats in an IP address, one octats is 8 bits, so an IP address is actually 32 bits. Every IP address is broken down into two parts by subnet mask they are Network ID and Host ID Network ID → 192.168.1 It acts just like our street, city , state name Host ID → 1 It acts just like our house number Subnet Mask Subnet mask is a group of four numbers that defines a computers network All 255's in a subnet mask collectively refers to the network portion and where as the 0's refers to the host porton