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  2. IP address - Wikipedia

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    A public IP address is a globally routable unicast IP address, meaning that the address is not an address reserved for use in private networks, such as those reserved by RFC 1918, or the various IPv6 address formats of local scope or site-local scope, for example for link-local addressing. Public IP addresses may be used for communication ...

  3. IPv6 address - Wikipedia

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    IPv6 address. An Internet Protocol version 6 address (IPv6 address) is a numeric label that is used to identify and locate a network interface of a computer or a network node participating in a computer network using IPv6. IP addresses are included in the packet header to indicate the source and the destination of each packet.

  4. List of IP version numbers - Wikipedia

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    The Internet Protocol that finally emerged was assigned version number 6, being the lowest free number greater than 4. The PIP protocol and TUBA protocol used versions 8 and 9, following version 7 for TP/IX. In 2004, an IPv9 protocol was developed in China using 256-bit addresses.

  5. IPv4 - Wikipedia

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    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 standards-based internetworking methods in the Internet and other packet-switched networks. IPv4 was the first version deployed for production on SATNET in 1982 and on the ARPANET in January 1983.

  6. Classless Inter-Domain Routing - Wikipedia

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    Classless Inter-Domain Routing. Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR / ˈsaɪdər, ˈsɪ -/) is a method for allocating IP addresses for IP routing. The Internet Engineering Task Force introduced CIDR in 1993 to replace the previous classful network addressing architecture on the Internet. Its goal was to slow the growth of routing tables on ...

  7. Multicast address - Wikipedia

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    A multicast address is a logical identifier for a group of hosts in a computer network that are available to process datagrams or frames intended to be multicast for a designated network service. Multicast addressing can be used in the link layer (layer 2 in the OSI model), such as Ethernet multicast, and at the internet layer (layer 3 for OSI ...

  8. IPv6 - Wikipedia

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    e. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal with the long-anticipated ...

  9. List of IP protocol numbers - Wikipedia

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    Locus Address Resolution Protocol: 0x5C 92 MTP Multicast Transport Protocol: 0x5D 93 AX.25 AX.25: 0x5E 94 OS KA9Q NOS compatible IP over IP tunneling 0x5F 95 MICP Mobile Internetworking Control Protocol: 0x60 96 SCC-SP Semaphore Communications Sec. Pro 0x61 97 ETHERIP Ethernet-within-IP Encapsulation RFC 3378: 0x62 98 ENCAP Encapsulation Header ...