IPv4

Proper noun

Meaning

IPv4

Initialism of Internet Protocol version 4.

Examples

Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space. Vint Cerf

Address representations IPv4 addresses may be represented in any notation expressing a 32-bit integer value. Source: Internet

Although IPv6 packet headers are at least twice the size of IPv4 packet headers, packet processing by routers is generally more efficient, because less processing is required in routers. Source: Internet

ARP is used for mapping a network address (e.g. an IPv4 address ) to a physical address like an Ethernet address (also named a MAC address ). Source: Internet

Broadcast addressing main In IPv4 it is possible to send data to all possible destinations ("all-hosts broadcast"), which permits the sender to send the data only once, and all receivers receive a copy of it. Source: Internet

Areas are identified by 32-bit numbers, expressed either simply in decimal, or often in the same octet-based dot-decimal notation used for IPv4 addresses. Source: Internet

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