In this chapter, you will learn about the addressing used in IPv4 and IPv6. We'll assign addresses of both types to various interfaces on the hosts and routers of the Illustrated Network. We'll ...

Learn how to use the format_ipv4_mask() function to parse the input with a netmask and return a string representing the IPv4 address in CIDR notation. ip string ️ The IPv4 address as CIDR notation.

Learn how to use the format_ipv4() function to parse the input with a netmask and return a string representing the IPv4 address. ip string ️ The IPv4 address. The format may be a string or number ...

In addition to IPv4 (often written as just IP), there is IP version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 was developed as IPng (“IP:The Next Generation” because the developers were supposedly fans of the TV show “Star Trek ...

If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but have ...

Every internet user these days must have come across the terms IPv4 and IPv6. You might have heard people say that IPv6 is better than IPv4 and it is the future. But what exactly do the terms IPv4 and ...

The Internet Protocol (IP) developedduring the mid-1970s, is the backbone of a family of protocols thatincludes TCP, UDP, RIP, and virtually every otherprotocol used for Internet communications. The ...

This paper aims to compare between OSPFv2 and OSPFv3, to explain the impact of the change in OSPFv3 packet format and the over load when OSPFv3 uses IPv6 packet instead of IPv4 packet format that was ...