IPv4 vs IPv6 vs Gigabit Ethernet
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IPv4, IPv6, Gigabit Ethernet! Are they the same? Or how are they
interrelated?
In a
Nutshell: IPv4 and
IPv6 are the addresses given to the devices that are connected in and across the
network for identification that use the internet protocol. Wherein, Gigabit
Ethernet is itself a protocol related to physical transmission or reception of
the data in the network at hardware level.
What is Internet protocol and what is its purpose?
TCP/IP: It specifies
how data is exchanged over the internet by providing end-to-end communications
that identify how it should be broken into packets, addressed, transmitted,
routed and received at the destination.
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite
Gigabit
Ethernet: Transmission technology based on the Ethernet frame format
and protocol used in local area networks (LANs), provides a data rate of 1
billion bits per second (one gigabit).
Image Source:
https://www.technologyuk.net/telecommunications/internet/tcp-ip-stack.shtml
The above diagram is
TCP/IP protocol Suite – data encapsulation, we could observe that the Ethernet
and IP address plays their roles in different layers respectively!