Directions IP - IPV4/IPV6
What’s an IP? well here we are going to explain and show what is an IP and the differences between IPV4 and IPV6.
How to see your IP and what it is
This is a private IP (Internet Protocol); what is an IP? Well, an IP it’s like a numeric label that’s identifies me in a logical and hierarchical in an net interface in a dispositive >
If you do “hostname -I” it will show you your IP as well
The IPs are conformed by bits, where in a IPV4 there’s 32 bits are divided into four octets.
And how many IP do we have in the world with IPV4? we do have 2^32 = 4,294,967,296 , and humans in the world are 7.951 billion, that means that we don’t have IPs for everybody. There’s another implementation, IPV6, that has more possibilities: 2^128 = 3.4028237e+38.