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Without a way to accurately identify how to reach devices, all network (and Internet) communication would simply collapse. My computer might be physically connected to yours (and to a million others), but expecting my e-mail to magically find its destination without a routable address is like throwing a bottle with a message inside into the ocean and expecting it to arrive on the kitchen table of a friend who lives ten thousand miles away. Within five minutes.
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Clinton, D. (2016). Topic 109: Networking Fundamentals. In: Practical LPIC-1 Linux Certification Study Guide. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2358-1_9
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