... services to use and which local services to make available to the global Internet community including files, pictures and audios. Host is a computer system that is accessed by a user working at a remote location. It is then connected to another computer systems or a TCP/IP network, including the Internet, connected by modems and telephone lines or routers. The system that contains the data is called the host, while the computers at which users sit and retrieve data and information called the terminal. When a host is connected to a TCP/IP network, it has a unique IP address. IP address is an identifier for a computer or device on a TCP/IP network. A wide area network can be seen below: From the diagram, the computers or hosts are connected in a local area network and which are connected to a router. The router then uses header and a forwarding table to determine ...

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