Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition

Key Terms

Review the following list of key terms:

• Dotted decimal— A common format for the decimal equivalent of a 32-bit IP address (for example, 111.121.131.144).

• Downloadable workspace— A portable, custom work environment available to the user no matter where the user logs in.

• Flow level— A designation for an IPv6 datagram specifying special handling or a special level of throughput (for example, real-time).

• Hop limit— The number of remaining router hops a datagram can take before it is discarded. The hop limit is specified in the IPv6 main header and then decremented at each router stop.

• IPv6— A new standard for IP addressing that features 128-bit IP addresses. The intent of IPv6 designers is for IPv6 to phase in gradually over the next several ...