[thelist] Basic Traffic tracking question

[Leo Wiedersheim]

Janet,
It is an IP Address.  whatis.com defines IP Address as:

In the most widely installed level of the Internet Protocol (Internet 
Protocol) today, an IP address is a 32-binary digit number that identifies 
each sender or receiver of information that is sent in packet across the 
Internet. When you request an HTML page or send e-mail, the Internet 
Protocol part of TCP/IP includes your IP address in the message (actually, 
in each of the packets if more than one is required) and sends it to the IP 
address that is obtained by looking up the domain name in the Uniform 
Resource Locator you requested or in the e-mail address you're sending a 
note to. At the other end, the recipient can see the IP address of the Web 
page requestor or the e-mail sender and can respond by sending another 
message using the IP address it received.

An IP address has two parts: the identifier of a particular network on the 
Internet and an identifier of the particular device (which can be a server 
or a workstation) within that network. On the Internet itself - that is, 
between the router that move packets from one point to another along the 
route - only the network part of the address is looked at.


I hope that helps,
Leo.


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