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An optional feature of IPv6, the jumbo payload option in a Hop-By-Hop Options extension header, [8] allows the exchange of packets with payloads of up to one octet less than 4 GB (2 32 − 1 = 4 294 967 295 octets), by making use of a 32-bit length field. Packets with such payloads are called jumbograms.
This 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 for the encapsulated protocol and determines the layout of the data that immediately follows the header. Both fields are eight bits wide.
Extension headers carry options that are used for special treatment of a packet in the network, e.g., for routing, fragmentation, and for security using the IPsec framework. Without special options, a payload must be less than 64 kB. With a Jumbo Payload option (in a Hop-By-Hop Options extension header), the payload must be less than 4 GB.
Set to 1 if the options need to be copied into all fragments of a fragmented packet. Option Class: 2: A general options category. 0 is for control options, and 2 is for debugging and measurement. 1 and 3 are reserved. Option Number: 5: Specifies an option. Option Length: 8: Indicates the size of the entire option (including this field).
The Internet checksum, [1] [2] also 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 is carried in the IPv4 packet header, and represents the 16-bit result of the summation of the header words. [3] The IPv6 protocol does
This article lists protocols, categorized by the nearest layer in the Open Systems Interconnection model.This list is not exclusive to only the OSI protocol family.Many of these protocols are originally based on the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) and other models and they often do not fit neatly into OSI layers.
In the IPv4 header, TTL is the 9th octet of 20. In the IPv6 header, it is the 8th octet of 40. The maximum TTL value is 255, the maximum value of a single octet. A recommended initial value is 64. [2] [3] The time-to-live value can be thought of as an upper bound on the time that an IP datagram can exist in an Internet system.
RFC 2474 — Definition of the differentiated services field (DS field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 headers. Note that the DS field of 8 bits (the bottom two unused) in [2] was later split into the current 6-bit DS field and a separate 2-bit ECN field. [3] RFC 2475 — An architecture for differentiated services. RFC 2597 — Assured forwarding PHB group.