Ch. 6 - Network Address

Computers connected to a network have addresses, just as we have addresses where we reside.  A computer on a network have an IP address(Internet Protocol) that states wher that computer is and how to gain access to it.  It is broken up into four parts.  The first set is the Network address and the other three are the host address.  An example given in the text is 72.14.207.99 where "72" is the network address and "14.207.99" is the host address.