One property of addresses is that they are unique; if two nodes had the same add

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One property of addresses is that they are unique; if two nodes had the same address, it would be impossible to distinguish between them. What other properties might be useful for network addresses to have? Can you think of any situations in which network (or postal or telephone) addresses might not be unique? One property of addresses is that they are unique; if two nodes had the same address, it would be impossible to distinguish between them. What other properties might be useful for network addresses to have? Can you think of any situations in which network (or postal or telephone) addresses might not be unique?

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some want addresses to present as locators and providing clues as how the data should be forwarded or routed and there is an approach for this i.e to make addresses hierarchical i.e to make addresses arranged according to the level of importance and it can also have another property i.e to assign addresses administratively as it identifies the host on the network against the factory assigned addresses i.e which an identifier is assigned to each address used by ethernet and other properties that addresses might have similarly like fixed length against variable length and absolute against relative i.e like file names . The situations in which network addresses might not be unique is that if you call a free phone number for a large business and many no of calls might answer then possibly all these calls have the same non unique address and another application for non unique address is that it may reach for serval routers or equivalent servers and other might think of other type of addressing methodologies i.e multicasting which is also non unique address that used to reach all set of hosts.

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