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Phase 3 · Animation

Packet Journey

Follow one HTTP request across the isometric board: headers wrap, hop, and unwrap layer by layer.

One HTTP request, hop by hop: watch headers wrap on the way down the stack, ride across the network, and peel off at the far end.

Step 1/12

Timeline
Packet journeyAt: Laptop · TTL 64
Laptop192.168.1.10SwitchL2Gateway192.168.1.1InternetWANWeb Server203.0.113.24
Encapsulation
L7 · DataHTTP GET /
L7 — the request

The browser produces application data: an HTTP GET for a web page. Right now it is just bytes with meaning — no addresses yet.

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