Please ELI5.
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I’d like to hear someone’s more elaborate explanation but the way I was once explained them is as follows:
An IP address is much like your own home address. A unique place on the internet that isn’t shared with anyone else. You can share your IP with people or servers so they know where to send information too and from.
A gateway is like if you lived in an apartment complex. You may share an address with someone but you don’t want the information going to your mom’s computer down the hall instead of your own. Your unique subnet (like a subdivision) would be your apartment number, so your neighbors don’t get the information indetended for you.
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