Fast Local Internet Protocol

{{The Fast Local Internet Protocol (FLIP) is a suite of internet protocols}}, which provide Security transparency, security and network management. FLIP was designed at the {{Vrije Universiteit}} in Amsterdam to support remote procedure calling in the{{ Amoeba}} distributed operating system.^[1] {{In the OSI model, FLIP occupies layer 3, thus replacing IP, but it also obviates the need for a transport-level protocol like TCP.}}

FLIP is a connectionless protocol designed to support transparency, group communication, secure communication and easy network management. The following FLIP properties helps to achieve the efficiency requirements:

• FLIP identifies entities called network service access points (NSAPs).

{{*FLIP uses a one way mapping between the “private” }}address, used to register an endpoint of a network connection, and the “public” address used to advertise the endpoint.

• FLIP routes messages based on NSAP.
• FLIP uses a bit in the message header to request transmission of sensitive messages across trusted networks.

See also

• IL (network protocol)

References

1. M. Frans Kaashoek, Robbert van Renesse, Hans van Staveren and Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1993). {{{FLIP: an internetwork protocol for supporting distributed systems}} Template:ACM Transactions on Computer Systems '''11''':73–106.