IP (Internet Protocol)
The Internet Protocol
is a method transmitting data over a network. Data to be sent is
divided into individual and completely independent “packets.” Each
computer (or host) on the Internet has at least one address that
uniquely identifies it from all others, and each data packet contains
both the sender's address and the receiver's address.
The
Internet Protocol ensures that the data packets all arrive at the
intended address. As IP is a connectionless protocol, which means that
there is no established connection between the communication
end-points, packets can be sent via different routes and do not need to
arrive at the destination in the correct order.
Once
the data packets have arrived at the correct destination, another
protocol - Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) – puts them in the right
order.
Article ID: 188, Created: July 14, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Modified: July 14, 2009 at 2:28 PM