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Introduction to TCP/IP

Introduction to TCP/IP

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Introduction to TCP/IP

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I'm gambling that most of us out here have heard the term IP address. So I'd like to start off by showing you what would be a typical IP address you might see on a computer today. So here's 192.168.5.10 Does that look familiar to you? These four digits separated by three dots. What we're looking at are the addresses that help us get information to any computer on the Internet. Without these IP addresses, The Internet's not going to work. But to really understand how all this started, we've got to go way back in time. Back in a time when we wanted big networks, but we didn't have one yet. And what we're going to start with his here in the United States. Here's a map of the continental United States. So here there's Maine and Florida. So if we got, you know what, wait a minute, we're going to do this live. Forget about it. Okay. Let's do this with me in front of you, because I love talking about this stuff. So…

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