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    Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth version of the Internet Protocol (IP). It is one of the core protocols of standards-based internetworking...
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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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  • 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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  • (16 bits): The use of the checksum and source port fields is optional in IPv4 (pink background in table). In IPv6 only the source port field is optional...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • reserved various Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for special purposes. IPv4 designates special usage or applications for various addresses or address...
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    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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  • IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling protocol, requires that the tunnel endpoint have a public IPv4 address. However, many hosts currently attach to the IPv4 Internet...
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  • Some large /8 blocks of IPv4 addresses, the former Class A network blocks, are assigned in whole to single organizations or related groups of organizations...
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  • communication between IPv6 and IPv4 hosts by using a form of network address translation (NAT). The NAT64 gateway is a translator between IPv4 and IPv6 protocols...
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  • to as TCP/IP. The first major version of IP, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), is the dominant protocol of the Internet. Its successor is Internet Protocol...
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  • layer (layer 3 for OSI) for Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) or Version 6 (IPv6) multicast. IPv4 multicast addresses are defined by the most-significant...
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  • called the IPv4 header checksum is a checksum used in version 4 of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) to detect corruption in the header of IPv4 packets. It...
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  • by doing so, alleviating the demand for the last remaining IPv4 addresses, a /10 size IPv4 address block was assigned by Internet Assigned Numbers Authority...
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  • not all unicast; e.g. IPv6 addresses beginning with ff02: (ff02::/16), and IPv4 addresses beginning with 224.0.0. (224.0.0.0/24) are multicast addresses...
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  • MAC address, associated with a given internet layer address, typically an IPv4 address. This mapping is a critical function in the Internet protocol suite...
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  • of an IPv4 network. It is defined in the informational RFC 5214. Unlike 6over4 (an older similar protocol using IPv4 multicast), ISATAP uses IPv4 as a...
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  • IP header (section IPv4)
    today: IPv4 and IPv6. The IPv6 header uses IPv6 addresses and thus offers a much bigger address space but is not backward compatible with IPv4. IPv4 is the...
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    Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), but its successor, IPv6, has been increasingly deployed since approximately 2006. An IPv4 address consists of 32 bits...
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  • Multihoming (redirect from IPv4 multihoming)
    administration[citation needed]. Network multihoming is the dominant technique for IPv4. This requires that a network have its own public IP address range and a...
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    Carrier-grade NAT (category IPv4)
    NAT (LSN), is a type of network address translation (NAT) used by ISPs in IPv4 network design. With CGNAT, end sites, in particular residential networks...
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    the overall architectural approach to fragmentation, are different between IPv4 and IPv6. RFC 791 describes the procedure for IP fragmentation, and transmission...
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  • (decimal) numbers. In computer networking, Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) addresses are commonly written using the quad-dotted notation of four decimal...
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  • from a Web browser by the URL http://localhost to display its home page. IPv4 network standards reserve the entire address block 127.0.0.0/8 (more than...
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  • IPv4 Residual Deployment (4rd) is an IPv6 transition mechanism for Internet service providers for deployment of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), while...
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  • dissimilar intermediate network, such as two IPv6 networks connected over an IPv4 network. Extranet-based site-to-site In the context of site-to-site configurations...
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  • This is a list of countries by IPv4 address allocation, as of 2 April 2012[update]. It includes 252 areas, including all United Nations member states,...
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    The method divides the IP address space for Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) into five address classes based on the leading four address bits. Classes...
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