...destination address, and routers forward the packet according to routing information they're matching against those addresses.
IP addresses are (typically) attached to interfaces, which are (typically) assigned to physical ports of a machine. Packet switching then is about routing chunks of data from an interface on one machine to an interface on another.
Fine.
At the fedi level, we aren't connecting machines. That's the layer below, we can forget about that. Instead,...
Jens Finkhäuser
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