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The Internet Protocol

Low-level protocol used by hosts and routers to ensure the packets travel from the source to the destination

Includes facilities for splitting the packets into small fragments

network links might not be able to support large packets
used to reconstruct packets at other end

Also includes time to live (TTL) field

how many network hops may transfer the packet

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