lets see ip address of our devices first

windows users

open command prompt and type ipconfig
you can see IPv4 address and IPv6 in the window.

Linux users

open terminal and type ip a based on ur interface u can see ip address if wifi see under wlp6s0 or if ethernet based connection see under enp7s0 ,u can see ur private ip address beside inet like this inet 192.168.1.2

That’s for practical,now let’s go into theory part

As we can see ip address is a just series of numbers seperated by period/dot.

In a computer network every device is identified with the help of ip address

Ip address is of 32 bit in length divided into 4 sections each is of 8 bit long seperated by period/dot.

Ex: 192.168.1.2

Ip address represented in dotted decimal form.

we cant say/remember binary right of 32 bit long, so we can converted it into decimal

decimal to binary conversion

decimal : 192.168.1.2
Binary: 11000000.10101000.00000001.00000010

Our computers will use ipaddress to talk to other computer on a computer network.

there are two types of ip address IPv4 and IPv6 (if IPv4 exhausted we can use for IPv6)

we can assign ip address manually or dynamically.