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Review of basic networking - Unity Tutorial
From the course: Unity 5: Network Gaming
Review of basic networking
- [Instructor] Let's start with a brief review of some basic networking concepts. Every computer on a network has a unique address, exactly the same way every house in a city also has a unique address. On a computer network, there are two addressing schemes used, IPv6, and more commonly, IPv4. Note that this is just version four and version six of the Internet Protocol respectively. If you've ever set up a wireless router for home Internet service, you are probably already familiar with the addressing system. An address consists of four octets, which is a fancy way of saying eight bit numbers. Or, if you prefer plain English, numbers ranging from zero to 255. The four octets are separated by dots, which English majors usually refer to as periods, but we call them dots. In addition to the four numbers comprising the address, there is also a port that goes with that address. I like to think of the port as just a hole where the data go in and out of the computer you're talking to. Most…
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