What IP does NOT provide

• End-to-end data reliability & flow control (done by TCP or application layer protocols)

• Sequencing of packets (like TCP)

• Error detection in payload (TCP, UDP or other transport layers)

• Error reporting (ICMP)

• Setting up route tables (RIP, OSPF, BGP etc)

• Connection setup (it is connectionless)

• Address/Name resolution (ARP, RARP, DNS)

• Configuration (BOOTP, DHCP)

• Multicast (IGMP, MBONE)

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