Re: [Trisquel-users] diffence in mac and ip?

2015-09-01 Thread contactame+antiesnob
.. this forum's gonna turn into wikipedia.. LOL

Re: [Trisquel-users] diffence in mac and ip?

2015-09-01 Thread tomlukeywood
well he could have answered: Google it!

Re: [Trisquel-users] diffence in mac and ip?

2015-09-01 Thread greatgnu
We don't like google. And we answered to use a search engine. This is a forum about free software and Trisquel. It's ok to talk about many things here but if many of us here start posting questions like "what is an IP address", "what is SSL" or "what is bittorrent" or whatever.. this forum's

Re: [Trisquel-users] diffence in mac and ip?

2015-09-01 Thread tomlukeywood
just to confirm i was not recommending Google i was just using that as an example of a worse post

Re: [Trisquel-users] diffence in mac and ip?

2015-08-31 Thread contactame+antiesnob
CONGRATULATIONSS!! VOTED AS THE WORST ANSWER OF THE MONTH!!

Re: [Trisquel-users] diffence in mac and ip?

2015-08-31 Thread contactame+antiesnob
IP is for the DoD model (AKA TCP/IP or Internet model) while MAC is for the OSI model. OSI has 7 layers while DoD has 4. Now I'm gonna say that what marioxcc is "partially wrong" in the sense of the use of the word Internet plus another thing I'm going 2 mention: Internet AKA The Net

[Trisquel-users] diffence in mac and ip?

2015-08-28 Thread cdwaldrum
hey guys im working on school work and i am very confuse on ip and mac address. i know ip is the acesss point to the internet and mac is computer id. but that is all i know.

Re: [Trisquel-users] diffence in mac and ip?

2015-08-28 Thread cdwaldrum
i currently thinking of deploying a sever on digitalocean.

Re: [Trisquel-users] diffence in mac and ip?

2015-08-28 Thread tomlukeywood
also a great way to understand how ip addresses work is by hosting your own webserver here a tutorial for Ubuntu 14.04 but as trisquel 7 is based on Ubuntu 14.04 the same will apply: http://funwithlinux.net/2014/04/ubuntu-14-04-web-server-tutorial/

Re: [Trisquel-users] diffence in mac and ip?

2015-08-28 Thread tomlukeywood
i know ip is the acesss point to the internet well not rely a IP address is just a number that is used to refer to a certain computer on a network so here is a very basic image of what most local networks look like in terms of ip addresses (the numbers you see are IP addresses):

Re: [Trisquel-users] diffence in mac and ip?

2015-08-28 Thread tomlukeywood
you don’t have to pay for a hosting service you can just host from your home you don’t even need a very fast connection unless your streaming HD video etc

Re: [Trisquel-users] diffence in mac and ip?

2015-08-28 Thread marioxcc . MT
i know ip is the acesss point to the internet and mac is computer id. but that is all i know. No, you think you know that, but your description is outright wrong. If you thought you know that, then you are using a bad source of information or you are misinterpreting it and reaching wrong

Re: [Trisquel-users] diffence in mac and ip?

2015-08-28 Thread greatgnu
I'm sure internet is full of info on the matter..