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Netprog 2002  TCP/IP
Netprog 2002  TCP/IP
IPv6 Header Fields
•VERS: 6 (IP version number)
•Priority: will be used in congestion control
•Flow Label: experimental - sender can label a sequence of packets as being in the same flow. •Payload Length: number of bytes in everything following the 40 byte header (up to 64Kb), or 0 for a Jumbogram (up to 4Gb).