A. If you are viewing this page on the web then you are using TCP/IP now! TCP/IP is a suite of related protocols and utilities used for network communications. TCP/IP is actually two protocols, Internet Protocol (IP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). There are many different implementations of TCP/IP however they all conform to a standard which means different implementations can communicate with each other.
Each machine that uses TCP/IP must have a unique TCP/IP address which is a 32 bit number, which is usually displayed in the dotted quad (or dotted decimal) format xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, where xxx is a number from 0 to 255, for example the IP address 147.98.26.11 is shown in its 32 bit form, and how it breaks down into the dotted quad format
|
10010011 |
01100010 |
00011010 |
00001011 |
|
147 |
98 |
26 |
11 |
TCP/IP was originally used on ARPANET, a military network and grew to universities and is now used on virtually every computer system.
