Re: do I need the IPv4 protocol?
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:59:22PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
| Hi!
| In order to use networking in a LAN do I need the IPv4 protocol?
Not necessarily. What else is going to be on the LAN? Is the LAN
going to be connected to the internet? If so, how? What sort of
services do you want on the LAN?
IPv4 is the core of the Internet right now. TCP is a
process-to-process connection layer that uses IP for the host-to-host
connection. You can use IPv6, but only if the host on the other side
(and all routers in-between) are using IPv6. You can tunnel a IPv6
connection through a IPv4 link if both sides agree to the tunnel.
There are other host-to-host level protocols such as Appletalk, but I
haven't seen them used much. You probably want to have IPv4 unless
you know for sure that you don't.
-D
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