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  The basic network transmission protocol of the Internet and every network based on [TCP/IP].
  
- This is the [C] structure that represents an [IP] header:
+ This is the [C] structure that represents an [IP] header (version 4):
  
   struct iphdr {
   #if defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD)
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  The [IP] protocol is the part of [TCP/IP] that allows packets of data to pass from one host to another.
  It's possible to think at an IP packet as a piece of data with a source and destination address attached,
  at every point of it's trip the destination address is used to select the right way in order to
- reache the destination host.
+ reach the destination host.
  
  
  In a [TCP/IP] network, hosts are identified by IP addresses. An [IP address] in the IPv4 protocol is a 4 byte number,
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- usually represented as a four 8-bit quantity separated by a point (example: 192.168.1.6).
+ usually represented as four 8-bit numbers separated by a point (example: 192.168.1.6).
  
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  The [IP] protocol works in a *best effort* fashion. This means that there is no guarantee that packets will eventually
  reach the destionation. They may be lost, duplicated, out of sequence. Higher level protocols like [TCP] add the reliability
- abstraction using the [IP] protocol as a base.+ abstraction using the [IP] protocol as a base.
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+ A protocol strictly related to the [IP] protocol is the [ICMP].
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+ See Also: [IPID] and [Idle scan].

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