1. Chapter 7 Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4)

2. 7.1 Introduction The transmission mechanism used by the TCP/IP
Unreliable and connectionless datagram protocol
Best-effort delivery service
IP packets can be corrupted, lost, arrive out of order, or delayed and may create congestion for the network
Each datagram is handled independently
Each datagram can follow a different route to destination
Datagram sent by the same source to the same destination could arrive out of order.

3. Position of IP in TCP/IP protocol suite

4. 7.2 Datagrams Datagrams are packets in the network layer
Datagram is a variable-length packet consisting of header and data.
The header is 20 to 60 bytes, contains information essential to routing and delivery
It is customary in TCP/IP to show the header in 4-byte section
Field in Header
Version(VER) – the version of IP protocol (4-bit)
Header length(HLEN) – total length of the datagram header in 4-byte words.

5. IP Datagram

6. IP Datagram TOS(Type of Service) – 8-bit Category Codepoint
Assigning Authority 1
XXXXX0
Internet : 24 services 2
XXXX11
Local 3
XXXX01
Temporary or experiment

7. Encapsulation of a small datagram in an Ethernet frame
IP Datagram
Total Length
16-bit field (limited to 65,535 bytes)
Define the total length of the IP datagram in bytes
Length of data = total length – header length
Encapsulation of a small datagram in an Ethernet frame
Figure 7.4 Encapsulation of a small datagram in an Ethernet frame

8. IP Datagram Identification – used in fragmentation
Flags – used in fragmentation
Fragmentation offset – used in fragmentation
Time to love – limited life time of datagram
Protocol – the higher level protocol that uses the services of the IP layer
Fig. 7.5 Multiplexing

9. IP Datagram Checksum – Check errors
Source address – The IP address of source
Destination address – The IP address of destination

10. Example 7.1 An IP packet has arrived with the first 8 bit shown:
The receiver discards the packet. Why?
Solution
There is an error in this packet. The 4 left-most bit(0100) show the version, which is correct. The next 4 bit(0010) show the wrong header length(2 × 4 = 8). The minimum number of byte in the header must be 20. The packet has been corrupted in transmission.

11. Example 7.2
In an IP packet, the value of HLEN is 1000 in binary. How many byte of option are being carried by this packet? Solution The HLEN value is 8, which means the total number of bytes in the header is 8 × 4 or 32 bytes. The first 20 bytes are the base header, the next 12 bytes are the option.

12. Example 7.3
In an IP packet, the value of HLEN is 516 and the value of the total length field is How many bytes of data are being carried by this packet?
Solution
The HLEN value is 5, which mean the total number of bytes in the header is 5 × 4 or 20 bytes (no options). The total length is 40 bytes, which means the packet is carrying 20 bytes of data (40 − 20).

13. 7.3 Fragmentation
The format and size of the received frame depend on the protocol used by the physical network
When a datagram encapsulated in a frame, the total size of the datagram must be less than MTU(Maximum Transfer Unit) size
We must divide the datagram to make it possible to pass through the network; this is called fragmentation

14. MTU(Maximum Transfer Unit)

15. Fragmentation
The value of the MTU differs from one physical network protocol to another

16. Fields Related to Fragmentation
Identification – All fragments have the same identification value
Flag – 3-bit field
Fragmentation offset – 13-bit field, the relative position of this fragment with respect to the whole datagram

17. Fragmentation Example

18. Detailed Fragmentation Example

19. Example 7.5
A packet has arrived with an M bit value of 0. Is this first fragment, or a middle fragment? Do we know if the packet was fragment? Solution If the M bit is 0, it means that there are no more fragment; the fragment is the last one. However, we cannot say if the original packet was fragment or not. A nonfragmented packet is considered the last fragment.

20. Example 7.9
A packet has arrived in which the offset value is 100, the value of HLEN is 5 and the value of the total length field is 100. What is the number of the first byte and the last byte? Solution The first byte number is 100 × 8 = 800. The total length is 100bytes and the header length is 20bytes (5 × 4), which means that there are 80 bytes in this datagram. If the first byte number is 800, the last byte number must be 879.

21. 7.4 Options Type field (8-bit) : Fixed length
Copy : Control the presence of the option in fragmentation
Class : Define the general purpose of the option
Number : Define the type of option
Length field (8-bit) : Fixed length
The total length of the option
Value field : Variable length
Contain the data that specific options require

22. Option Format

23. Categories of Options

24. No Operation Option
1-byte option used as a filter between options

25. End-of-Option Option
1-byte option used for padding at the end of the option field

26. Record-Route Option
Used to record the Internet routers that handle the datagram

27. Record-Route Concept 4 8

28. Strict-Source-Route Option
Used by source to predetermine a route for the datagram as it travels through the Internet
All of routers defined in the option must be visited by the datagram

29. Strict-Source-Route Concept

30. Loose-Source-Route Option
Similar to the strict source route, but it is more relaxed. Each router in the list must be visited, but the datagram can visit other routers as well

31. Timestamp Option
Used to record the time of datagram processing by a router
The time is expressed in miliseconds from Universal Time

32. Use of Flag in Timestamp
Flag 0 : each router adds only the timestamp in the provided field
Flag 1 : each router must add its outgoing IP address and the timestamp
Flag 3 : the IP addresses are given, and each router must check the given IP address with its own incoming IP address 1

33. Timestamp Concept

34. Example 7.11 b. End of option: type is 00000000; datagram control.
Which of the six option are used for datagram control and which
are used for debugging and management?
Solution
We look at the second and third (left-most) bits of the type.
a. No operation: type is ; datagram control.
b. End of option: type is ; datagram control.
c. Record route: type is ; datagram control.
d. Strict source route: type is ; datagram control.
e. Loose source route: type is ; datagram control.
f. Timestamp: type is ; debugging and management control.

35. Example 7.12
One of the utilities available in UNIX to check the traveling of the IP packets is ping. In the next chapter, we talk about the ping program in more detail. In this example, we want to show how to use the program to see if a host is available. We ping a server at De Anza College named fhda.edu. The result shows that the IP address of the host is The result also shows the number of bytes used.

36. Example 7.15
The traceroute program can be used to implement loose source routing. The –g option allows us to define the routers to be visited, from the source to destination. The following shows how we can send a packet to the fhda.edu server with the requirement that the packet visit the router

37. Example 7.16
The traceroute program can also be used to implement strict source routing. The –G option forces the packet to visit the routers in the command line. The following shows how we can send a packet to the fhda.edu server and force the packet to visit only the router

38. 7.5 Checksum
Checksum – The error detection method used by most TCP/IP protocol
Protect against the corruption that may occur during the transmission of a packet
Redundant information added to the packet
Calculated at the sender and the value obtained is sent with the packet
The receiver repeats the same calculation on the whole packet including the checksum
If the result is satisfactory, the packet is accepted; otherwise, it is rejected

39. Checksum Concept

40. Checksum in One’s Complement Arithmetic

41. Example 7.17
Figure shows an example of a checksum calculation at the sender site for an IP header without option. The header is divided into 16-bit sections. All the sections are added and the sum is complemented. The result is inserted in the checksum field. Example of checksum calculation at the sender

42. Example 7.18
Figure shows the checking of checksum calculation at the receiver site ( or intermediate router ) assuming that no errors occurred in the header. The header is divided into 16-bit sections. All the sections are added and the sum is complement. Since the result is 16 0s, the packet is accepted.

43. 7.6 IP over ATM
In this section, we want to see how an IP datagram is moving through a switched WAN such as an ATM
The IP packet is encapsulated in cells
An ATM network has its own definition for the physical address of a device
Binding between an IP address and a physical address is attained through a protocol called ATMARP

44. An ATM WAN in the Internet

45. AAL Layer The AAL layer used by the IP protocol is AAL5
The only AAL used by the Internet is AAL5
It is sometimes called the simple and efficient adaptation layer (SEAL).
AAL5 accepts an IP packet of no more than 65,536 bytes and adds 8-byte trailer
AAL5 passes the message in 48-byte segments to the ATM layer

46. Cell Routing
The cells start from the entering-point router and end at the exiting-point router

47. Address Binding in IP over ATM
An ATM network needs virtual circuit identifiers to route the cell
IP datagram contains only source and destination IP address
Virtual circuit identifiers must be determined from the destination IP address.

48. 7.7 Security
Since the IPv4 protocol was started when the Internet user trusted each other, no security was provided for the IPv4 protocol
Today, however, the situation is different
The Internet is not secure any more
In this section, we give a brief idea about the security issues in IP protocol and the solution

49. Security Issues Packet sniffing Passive attack
The attacker does not change the contents of the packet
Encryption of the packet – attacker cannot see the contents of packet
Packet modification
Active attack
The attacker intercepts the packet, change the contents of the packet
Data integrity – receiver can make sure that packet has not been changed during the transmission
IP spoofing
An attacker can masquerade as somebody else and create an IP packet that carries the source address of another computer
Origin authentication mechanism can prevent this type of attack

50. IPSec (IP Security)
Create a connection-oriented service between two entities in which they can exchange IP packet without worrying about the three attacks discussed before
Defining Algorithms and Key
The two entities that want to create a secure channel between themselves can agree on some available algorithms and keys to be used for security purpose
Packet Encryption
Make the packet sniffing attack useless
Data Integrity
Guarantee that the packet is not modified during the transmission
Origin Authentication
Prevent IP spoofing attack

51. 7.8 IP Package IP package involves eight component
Header-adding module
Processing module
Forwarding module
Fragmentation module
Reassembly module
Routing module
MTU table
Reassembly table

52. IP Component

53. IP Header-Adding Module

54. Processing Module

55. IP Package Queue Routing table Forwarding module MTU table
Input queue – store the datagram coming from the data link layer or the upper-layer protocols
Output queue – store the datagram going to the data link layer or the upper-layer protocols
Routing table
Used by the forwarding module to determine the next-hop address of the packet
Forwarding module
Receive an IP packet from the processing module
Find the IP address of the next station along with the interface number to which the packet should be sent
MTU table
Used by the fragmentation module to find the maximum transfer unit of a particular interface

56. Fragmentation Module

57. Fragmentation Module

58. Reassembly Table Used by reassembly module
State field : FREE or IN-USE
IP address field : define the source IP address of the datagram
Datagram ID : number that uniquely defines a datagram
Timeout : predetermined amount of time in which all fragments must arrive
Fragment field : a pointer to a linked list of fragment

59. Reassembly Module

60. Summary
IP is an unreliable connectionless protocol responsible for source-to-destination delivery. Packets in the IP layer are called datagrams
The MTU is the maximum number of bytes that a data link protocol can encapsulate. MTUs vary from protocol to protocol. Fragmentation is the division of a datagram into smaller units to accommodate the MTU of a data link protocol
The IP datagram header consists of a fixed, 20-byte section and a variable options section with a maximum 40 bytes. The options section of the IP header is used for network testing and debugging. The six IP options each have a specific function

61. Summary
The error detection method used by IP is the checksum. The checksum, however, convers only the header, but not the data. The checksum uses one’s complement arithmetic to add equal-size sections of the IP header. The complement result is stored in the checksum field. The receiver also used one’s complement arithmetic to check the header.
IP over ATM uses AAL5 layer in an ATM network. An ATM network creates a route between an entering-point router and exiting-point router. The next-hop address of an IP packet can be mapped to a physical address of an exiting-point router using ATMARP
An IP package can consist of the following : a header-adding module, a processing module, a forwarding module, a fragmentation module, a reassembly module, a routing table, an MTU table, and a reassembly table.