Internet Protocol
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How the hourglass shape of the IP layer lets new applications arrive without changing routers
How IP-based geolocation gets the wrong city for users on mobile networks
How middleboxes turned a clean layered design into a negotiated mess
How BGP communities steer inbound traffic without asking the neighbor
The original argument for a stateless network and where state crept back in
Why an IP address is both a name and a location and what that costs mobility and multihoming
Why does carrier-grade NAT break port forwarding for game consoles?
IP fragmentation lets packets slip past some firewall rule sets
The architecture omitted a session layer so every application rebuilt one in its own way
IPv6 adoption is slower than the address shortage should have forced
Two hosts on the same LAN can hold the same private IP address without conflict
Each network layer ends up carrying a killer application its designers never planned for
Filtering ICMP breaks path MTU discovery and creates mysterious black holes
A misconfigured subnet mask can take down a whole office network
Allocating IPv6 prefixes to ISPs means almost nobody needs a /64 at home
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