What does IP mean?

The representative of Ip has the following meanings:

1. IP is the abbreviation of intellectual property, which refers to the interconnection protocol between networks. The Chinese abbreviation is "Internet Association". The abbreviation is IP. According to different purposes and security levels, IP addresses can also be roughly divided into two categories: public addresses and private addresses.

public addresses are used in the Internet and can be accessed at will. Private addresses can only be used in internal networks, and only through proxy servers can they communicate with the Internet.

2. It means intellectual property right, abbreviated as IP.

3. An IP address is like a phone number (address code): with someone's phone number, you can talk to him. Similarly, with the IP address of a host, you can communicate with this host.

4. Computer systems produced by any manufacturer can be interconnected with the Internet as long as they comply with the IP protocol. IP addresses are unique and can be divided into five categories according to the nature of users. In addition, IP also has the meaning of entry protection, intellectual property rights, pointer register and so on.

5. The network address is uniformly assigned by the Internet Authority (InterNIC) in order to ensure the global uniqueness of the network address. The host address is assigned by the system administrator of each network. Therefore, the uniqueness of network address and the uniqueness of host address in the network ensure the global uniqueness of IP address.

Extended information:

Fixed IP and Dynamic IP

Basically, these two things are the products of a large number of growth of network companies. For example, if you apply to China Telecom for a commercial ADSL line, he will give you a fixed entity IP, which is called "fixed IP". And if you are applying for ADSL with time system, your IP may be used by dozens of people.

Therefore, the IP of your computer will not be fixed every time you restart the computer to surf the Internet! So it is called "dynamic IP" or "floating IP". Basically, these two are "physical IP", but the different methods used by network companies to allocate them to users produce different names!

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