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1. Introduction to IP

IP (Internet Protocol) is, as its name indicates, a protocol to interconnect networks.

IP's main design goals are robustness and physical abstraction of media ("IP over everything").

1.1. Concepts of IP

1.2. Architecture of IP

1.2.1. Addressing
1.2.2. Addressing (2)
1.2.3. Netmasks, CIDR, and subnets
1.2.4. Structure of IP packets

1.3. Transport protocols

1.3.1. Ports, sockets

1.4. IP on different medias ("links")

1.4.1. IP addressing <-> link level addressing
1.4.2. IP and point-to-point links

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