🎩 IP and MAC Addresses 🎩
Every single packet being sent around has two addresses inside of it—an Internet Protocol and a Media Access Control address. An IP address really only identifies your network, as all internal IP addresses are actually private and handled by Network Address Translation (NAT) at the router. You might have an IP address from your ISP of 201.95.87.98 that identifies your network, and your actual computer might have a private, inside-the-network address of 192.168.1.67.
This is done so that many devices, like your PlayStation and your computer, can get on the Internet at the same time, while only needing one IP address. If every single device online today had its own address, we would have already ran out of new ones to use!
➖ @UpcomingHackers ➖
Every single packet being sent around has two addresses inside of it—an Internet Protocol and a Media Access Control address. An IP address really only identifies your network, as all internal IP addresses are actually private and handled by Network Address Translation (NAT) at the router. You might have an IP address from your ISP of 201.95.87.98 that identifies your network, and your actual computer might have a private, inside-the-network address of 192.168.1.67.
This is done so that many devices, like your PlayStation and your computer, can get on the Internet at the same time, while only needing one IP address. If every single device online today had its own address, we would have already ran out of new ones to use!
➖ @UpcomingHackers ➖