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Well IPv4 is actually just part of the protocol TCP/IP or Transmission Control Protocol / internet Protocol.

IPv4 is the current addressing scheme used by TCP/IP. The newer IPv6 has been rolling out to eventually replace IPv4.

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IPv4 is a 32 bit binary addressing scheme by which every computer on the public Internet (most commonly HTTP) or web servers must be assigned a unique address.

The address format is comprised of four sets of 8 bit numbers, more commonly referred to as an octet. So 4 * 8 binary numbers give you a 32 bit IPv4 binary address. Because these numbers are binary each place value only has two possibilities, 0 or 1.

Because there are only around 4.3 billion addresses available with 2^32 possible IPv4 addresses a new IPv6 was developed which gives a 128 bit addresses space. This should last until there is no room to stand anywhere on the planet.

To summarize IPv4 is not a protocol but an addressing scheme that TCP/IP uses to transmit data packets over the Internet or over a private network. Every computer that is directly connected to the Internet needs a unique address. There are what is known as private IPv4 addresses, different topic, and finally IPv4 will eventually be replaced by IPv6.

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