In addition to IPv4 (often written as just IP), there is IP version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 was developed as IPng (“IP:The Next Generation” because the developers were supposedly fans of the TV show “Star Trek ...
Most notable is the lack of a checksum field for the IPv6 header.This greatly improves performance in routers. When an IPv4 packet isforwarded by a router the Time-to-Live (TTL) field must be ...