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For questions about Internet Protocol (IP), an OSI layer-3 network protocol. There are two current IP versions in use: IPv4 and IPv6.

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What stops someone from configuring their network with IP addresses they do not own?

Now, if you're yourself an ISP, and start telling others that you are the one to use to route this IPs (using a routing protocol like BGP), then those IP will "partly" become yours, for a while. …
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Why are IP addresses given to each interface and not device? What would the implications of ...

Another case is VLANs, you might have actually, connected to a single network card, several different virtual LANs, with different IP addresses. … Such a configuration isn't uncommon for servers, the hardware you rent may have a single network interface card, but you will have several IP addresses configured. …
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