Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the first version of the Internet Protocol (IP) as a standalone specification. It is one of the core protocols of...
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IPv6 (redirect from IPv4-compatible address)
to deal with the long-anticipated problem of IPv4 address exhaustion, and was intended to replace IPv4. In December 1998, IPv6 became a Draft Standard...
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IPv4 address exhaustion is the depletion of the pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses. Because the original Internet architecture had fewer than 4.3 billion...
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IP address (section IPv4 addresses)
version 4 (IPv4) defines an IP address as a 32-bit number. However, because of the growth of the Internet and the depletion of available IPv4 addresses...
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Classless Inter-Domain Routing (redirect from IPv4 subnetting reference)
on routers across the Internet, and to help slow the rapid exhaustion of IPv4 addresses. IP addresses are described as consisting of two groups of bits...
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List of IP protocol numbers (redirect from List of IPv4 protocol numbers)
is a list of the IP protocol numbers found in the field Protocol of the IPv4 header and the Next Header field of the IPv6 header. It is an identifier...
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Private network (section Private IPv4 addresses)
networks (LANs) in residential, office, and enterprise environments. Both the IPv4 and the IPv6 specifications define private IP address ranges. Most Internet...
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User Datagram Protocol (redirect from IPv4 pseudo header)
(16 bits): The use of the Checksum and Source Port fields is optional in IPv4 (light purple background in table). In IPv6 only the Source Port field is...
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IPv6 address (section Transition from IPv4)
infrastructure of the Internet, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). In contrast to IPv4, which defined an IP address as a 32-bit value, IPv6 addresses...
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Reserved IP addresses (section IPv4)
reserved various Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for special purposes. IPv4 designates special usage or applications for various addresses or address...
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