Why Do We Need IP Addresses? - Computerphile

A Computerphile viewer asked the question: Why do we need IP addresses when every network interface has its own Mac address? - I put it to Dr Richard Mortier; University Lecturer in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge Machine Learning Methods:    • Machine Learning Methods - Computerphile   How Search Engines Treat Data:    • How Search Engines Treat Data - Computerphile   The Network Stack:    • Network Stacks and the Internet - Computer...   IP Addresses & the Internet:    • IP Addresses and the Internet - Computerphile     / computerphile     / computer_phile   This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at http://www.bradyharan.com