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...e routes which are chosen by the routing algorithm as preferred routes for packet forwarding, often in a compressed or pre-compiled format that is optimized ...age it sends an Internet Protocol version 4 or Internet Protocol version 6 packet to a router in the local subnet. Since this is a complicated task to route

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...nicast message, whether it be an application message, a [[routing|routed]] packet, or an [[Ethernet]] frame, is '''unicast''' if the destination address is t

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...s. The role of the destination address is clearly necessary to forward the packet. The source address, however, has a number of housekeeping and security fun ...'', or the basic information a router needs to decide where to forward the packet. You could think of a prefix as the identifier of a highway or street. The

...alled '''ping of death''', abbreviated POD, became rather common, a single packet that would crash many machines. It first became widespread among gamers &md ...uffer is overwritten. Of course, the operating system should reject such a packet, but if it does not then chaos may ensue.

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...means to send a reply back to the source address in the packet header, the packet must be forged (i.e., an example of ''IP spoofing'') or in error. Packets w ...be looked up in the FIB. If there were no route to the source address, the packet could be deemed a bogon and silently discarded. <ref name=ingress-MH>{{cit

...ughly equivalent to the routing control plane. Bridges do not look at the packet they encapsulate, but at destination headers in the frames. ...olicies, however, dictate that the router should be programmed to drop the packet silently. By dropping filtered packets silently, a potential attacker does

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...and bandwidth. The forwarding process does the actual insertion of the IP packet into a frame and forwards the frame to the next hop.

...the idea of this layer include tunneling: the endpoint that encapsulates a packet is logically at the transport layer, even though it is not the true applica ...ross a network that might not be compatible with the format of the payload packet. Closely related are protocols that set up a security association between t

...e designed for the nuclear communications mission, this is not the case; [[packet switching]] was insufficiently mature at the time.

...and Barcelona preceded it by a few months. '''[[Tymnet]]''', a competitive packet switching network, started operations slightly after Telenet. ...in the internal network remembered the status of calls. In datagram-based packet switching, routers handling packets have no memory of previous transmission