Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers?

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JesterIzDead@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Yes, but no. The public IP is that of the router, which NATs packets to each host, each of which must have a unique private IP. The public IP does not reference or identity hosts behind the router.

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