Introduction

The Internet Protocol (IP) is a protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched

 

internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite,

Also referred to as TCP/IP.

IP is the primary protocol in the Internet Layer of the Internet Protocol Suite and has the task of delivering distinguished protocol datagrams (packets) from the source host to the destination host solely based on their addresses. For this purpose the Internet Protocol defines addressing methods and structures for datagram encapsulation.