IP Addresses

IP address is an Internet Protocol used to deliver packets of data from a source to a destination across an interconnected system of networks.

An IP address has two sections:

Network: Identifies the network on which the device is configured.
Host: Identifies the host device.

IPv4 Address

IPv4 uses a fixed-length 32-bit addressing system and is represented in a 4-byte dotted decimal format, x.x.x.x.

IPv6 Address

IPv6 increases the number of network address bits from 32 (IPv4) to 128 bits, which provides more unique IP addresses to support more network devices.

An IPv6 address consists of 8 fields of 16-bit hexadecimal values separated by colons (:), x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x