Is the target of network attack attacking host IP or network IP?

Let's discuss the situation. Let's talk about LAN first. If the attack is carried out through the host IP under the same LAN, here, I will demonstrate it to you with kali (the demonstration system is kalilinux). First, check the IP address of this machine.

Of course, the IP segment here is 7 1, so I can scan the 7 1 segment and find the corresponding IP to attack. Here, I use a famous nmap scanner.

After scanning these IPS, we can judge the information and open ports of these hosts and collect information. Then when attacking this IP, we can use the metasoloit tool to attack, which is harmful, so we won't do a specific demonstration here.

The above is an attack on LAN ip.

Next, let's talk about public IP, which is not easy to be invaded. Generally, there is a web server corresponding to it. Then we can start with the website and get the shell of the server through a series of operations. Of course, these are all hacker operations. If you want to know, you can go online and look at courses and so on.