what is ip
?

Answer Posted / krishna mohan

- IP stands for Internetwork Protocol.
- IP operates at Layer 3 (Network Layer) of OSI reference
model and is part of suite protocols in TCP/IP.
- Each node TCP/IP software is uniquely identified by an 4
Byte IP address.
- IP's PDU is called packet or datagrams. So IP transmits
datagrams over a packet-swithched network.
- Each IP datagram contains source and destination addresses
along with other information.
- IP specification defined in RFC 791.

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