This chapter is a brief review of IPv4,1 the foundation protocol of the Second Internet. I am covering it in this chapter to help you understand what is new and different in IPv6. It is not intended to be comprehensive. There are many great books listed in the bibliography if you wish to understand IPv4 at a deeper level. The reason IPv4 is relevant in this book is because the design of IPv6 is based heavily on that of IPv4. First, IPv4 can be considered one of the great achievements in IT history, based on its ...
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L. E. HughesThird Generation Internet Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8603-6_33. Review of IPv4
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