Edexcel GCSE Computer Science 2020

4.1.3: understand how the internet is structured (IP addressing, routers)

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destination addressIP address of the computer which should receive data
IP addresssequence of numbers which specifies the location of a computer on the Internet
routera device with multiple network connections which sends passes on network traffic so that it can eventually reach the right destination
routing tableused by routers to work out which network connection to use to forward network traffic so that it reaches the right destination address
source addressIP address of the computer which sends data
The Internetinternational, interconnected network of networks
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