Episode 892
IPv4
Sat, 2019-Oct-12 00:57 UTC
Length - 1:44
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With 1,494,709 views on Friday, 11 October 2019 our article of the day is IPv4.
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth version of the Internet Protocol (IP). 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 in the ARPANET in 1983. It still routes most Internet traffic today, despite the ongoing deployment of a successor protocol, IPv6. IPv4 is described in IETF publication RFC 791 (September 1981), replacing an earlier definition (RFC 760, January 1980).
IPv4 uses a 32-bit address space, which limits the number of unique hosts to 4,294,967,296 (232), but large blocks are reserved for special networking methods.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:57 UTC on Saturday, 12 October 2019.
For the full current version of the article, see IPv4 on Wikipedia.
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