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 | | IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses, limiting it to 4,294,967,296 uniqueaddresses, many of which are reserved for special purposes such aslocal networks or multicast addresses, reducing the number ofaddresses that can be allocated as public Internet addresses. |
 | | IPv4 addresses are usually written in Dot-decimal notation. |
 | | When a large IPv4 packet is split up into smaller fragments(which is usually, but not always, done at a router in the middleof the path from the source to the destination), the fragments areall normal IPv4 packets; i.e. |
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