This article is intended to show difference between IPv4 and IPv6. It introduces the list of new features that IPv6 is offering.
When you see IPv6 address it is easy to notice how differently it is written. While IPv4 is written in a form of four decimal numbers separated by a period, the IPv6 is having eight hexadecimal numbers separated by ...
The name for the TCP/IP protocol IGMP can stand either for Internet Group Management Protocol or Internet Group Multicast Protocol. It is used for sending exact same packets of data to multiple nodes. Unlike broadcasting, the group of recipients can be defined. Although most of data is sent on P2P basis in the network, IGMP is providing multicasting that uses ...