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The Internet Protocol (IP)

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Although the Internet protocol is the second component of the TCP/IP acronym, it is perhaps the more important of the two. IP is the basic protocol in the suite that provides the information used for getting packets from one place to another. IP provides a connectionless, unacknowledged network service, and also provides the addressing mechanism […]

Examining IP Datagram Header Information

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In the IP header you will find the addressing information that is used by routers and other network devices to deliver the packet to its eventual destination.

Version—IP comes in different versions. This 4-bit field is used to store the version of the packet. Currently, IP version 4 is the most widely used version of IP. […]

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