Version 15 of IP

Updated 2013-12-02 18:34:45 by pooryorick

Internet Protocol , or IP, is a communication protocol for packet-switched networks.

See Also

Handling internet addresses

DNS

Tools

tcllib tcllib_ip

provides commands to manipulate IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

netaddr-tcl

a package that does almost the smae thing, but with some additional functionality

A little 6to4 calculator

a program that a list of IPv4 addresses on the command line, and calculates the respective IPv6 address prefixes for the 6to4 network

A Little CIDR Calculator

Internet Checksum

The currently-used checksum in IPV4 as described in RFC 791

Documentation

RFC 791, Internet Protocol

RFC 1726, Technical Criteria for Choosing IP the Next Generation (IPng)

Description

Internet Protocol describes a how interconnected computer systems address and talk to each other. Usually you have TCP or UDP layered over the top to provide port-based addressing and checksums...

The most common version of IP at the moment is version 4, though you may well also see version 6 about from time to time (mostly at very large ISPs though.)

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