Chapter Review Questions


You can find the answers to the following questions in Appendix A, "Answers to Chapter Review Questions."

1:

List three of the main features of TCP.

2:

Imagine that you visit a website, and as a result, you download a graphics image called logo.gif. The logo is 4000 bytes. How many segment(s) will the server send back to your browser to send you the logo? Assume an mss of 1480 bytes. Explain your answer.

3:

Imagine that a web server sent 3 TCP segments to a browser on Keith's PC, each 1000 bytes long, with sequence numbers 4304, 5304, and 6304, respectively. Assuming no errors had occurred, explain how Keith's PC could acknowledge receipt of the data.

4:

Imagine that a web server sent 3 TCP segments to a browser on Keith's PC, each 1000 bytes long, with sequence numbers 4304, 5304, and 6304, respectively. Assuming that the third segment had errors in it, explain how the data would be recovered.

5:

Define the word encapsulation, using TCP encapsulation as an example.

6:

Imagine that Keith brings up a browser on his PC and browses a website. He then brings up another browser, browsing a second website. When Keith receives the next TCP segment, how does his PC know to which browser to give the data?

7:

How many TCP segments flow between two computers to establish a TCP connection?

8:

What is the name of the other TCP/IP transport layer protocol?

9:

A TCP header, along with the application data, is called what?

10:

Define the term forward acknowledgment.

11:

Define the term well-known port.




Computer Networking first-step
Computer Networking First-Step
ISBN: 1587201011
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 173
Authors: Wendell Odom

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