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network layerThe network layer provides the functional and procedural means of transferring variable length data sequences from a source host on one network to a destination host on a different network (in contrast to the data link layer which connects hosts within the same network), while maintaining the quality of service requested by the transport layer. The network layer performs network routingfunctions, and might also perform fragmentation and reassembly, and report delivery errors. Routers operate at this layer, sending data throughout the extended network and making the internet possible. This is a logical addressing scheme - values are chosen by the network engineer. The addressing scheme is not hierarchical.

The network layer may be divided into three sublayers:

  1. Subnetwork access - that considers protocols that deal with the interface to networks, such as X.25;
  2. Subnetwork-dependent convergence - when it is necessary to bring the level of a transit network up to the level of networks on either side
  3. Subnetwork-independent convergence - handles transfer across multiple networks.

An example of this latter case is CLNP, or IPv6 ISO 8473. It manages the connectionless transfer of data one hop at a time, from end system to ingress router, router to router, and from egress router to destination end system. It is not responsible for reliable delivery to a next hop, but only for the detection of erroneous packets so they may be discarded. In this scheme, IPv4 and IPv6 would have to be classed with X.25 as subnet access protocols because they carry interface addresses rather than node addresses.

A number of layer-management protocols, a function defined in the Management Annex, ISO 7498/4, belong to the network layer. These include routing protocols, multicast group management, network-layer information and error, and network-layer address assignment. It is the function of the payload that makes these belong to the network layer, not the protocol that carries

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