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TCP/IP 47<br />

Figure 3.8: The IP header<br />

• Version (V): field of 4 bits that represents the IP version.<br />

• IHL: field of 4 bits that represents the length of the header (in bytes)<br />

• Type of service: reserved/priority of the required service<br />

• Total length: the <strong>to</strong>tal length in bytes of the complete IP packet<br />

• Identification: if an IP packet has <strong>to</strong> be divided, then each packet gets a unique identification<br />

so that all packets can be merged back correctly on the receiving side.<br />

• Flags: the flags are used <strong>to</strong> follow-up the fragmentation of the packets<br />

• Fragment offset : when a data packet is divided then the position of the fragment in the<br />

entire packet is a 8-bit unit.<br />

• Time <strong>to</strong> live (TTL): every time an IP packet passes a router, this value is reduced by 1.<br />

If this number is 0 then the relevant router will reject this message. This avoids that a<br />

message can exist forever.<br />

• Pro<strong>to</strong>col: the higher level pro<strong>to</strong>col is represented here<br />

01h<br />

06h<br />

11h<br />

ICMP<br />

TCP<br />

UDP<br />

• Header Checksum: a check value for the IP header. Every router will recalculate this<br />

header checksum.<br />

• Source IP address: IP address of the sending participant<br />

• Destination IP address: IP address of the receiving participant<br />

• Options : other network information can be included in the IP header. If the options<br />

data do not end with a 32-bit word, then the rest is filled with padding zeroes.

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