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You may have heard of TCP/IP; this is TransmissionControlProtocol used on top of IP. Think of it as a layer system - TCP takes IP and adds useful stuff to it.
IP is responsible for moving packet of data from node to node. IP forwards each packet based on a four byte destination address (the IP number). The Internet authorities assign ranges of numbers to different organizations. The organizations assign groups of their numbers to departments. IP operates on gateway machines that move data from department to organization to region and then around the world.
-IP is defined in [RFC 791|http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc791.html]
+IP is defined in [RFC 791|http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc791.html].
-An IP
(version 4) address looks like 210.54.17.134; version 4 is in current usage. A push to move to Version 6 is in place due to the number of IP addresses in v4 running precariously low
: an IPv6 address looks like 3ffe:0501:0008:0000
:0260:97ff:fe40:efab
and has
something like 2 million
possible IP addresses per square foot of the planet.
+An [IPv4]
(version 4) address looks like 210.54.17.134; version 4 is in current usage. A push to move to Version 6 ([IPv6])
is in place due to the number of IP addresses in v4 being scarce in places
: an IPv6 address looks like ''
3ffe:0501:0008::0260:97ff:fe40:bade''
and offers
something like millions of
possible IP addresses per square foot of the planet.
Go away and read about IP and then take an [Internet Protocol quiz|http://compnetworking.about.com/library/weekly/aa081000a.htm].
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