Description: Get your computer's IP address in IPv4 or IPv6 (if available) formats.
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An IP address, or Internet Protocol address, is a numerical label assigned to every device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. It serves two primary functions: identifying the host or network interface, and providing the location of the host in the network.
IP addresses consist of a series of four numbers, separated by periods, such as 192.0.2.1. Each number can range from 0 to 255, and the combination of these numbers provides a unique identifier for each device on a network. There are two versions of IP addresses in use today: IPv4, which uses 32-bit addresses and can support up to 4.3 billion unique addresses, and IPv6, which uses 128-bit addresses and can support an enormous number of unique addresses.
IP addresses are essential for enabling communication between devices on the Internet and are used by various networking protocols to route data packets from one device to another.