HOMEWORK #6 – Week #6
This homework assignment is worth 10% of your course grade and contains five 20–point problems.
Read each problem carefully. Failure to follow the instructions for a problem will result in a zero score for that problem.
Submit the completed Homework via Assignment in LEO.
1. Compare and contrast TCP and UDP.
2. Since TCP is a connection oriented protocol what would you expect to see in
the TCP packet header that you would not see in a UDP header?
3. What mechanism in TCP allows a user to run multiple browser windows to
different web sites over the same TCP transport layer?
4. The following is a dump (contents) of a UDP header in hexadecimal format.
7E50 1AE1 006F C100
a. What is the source port number? ________
b. What is the destination port number? _________
c. What is the total length of the user datagram? _______
d. What is the length of the data? _________
Note: Do not forget that eight bits = one byte
5. The following is part of a TCP header dump (contents) in hexadecimal format.
D294 01BB 00000001 00000000 5012 00DF . . . . .
a. What us the source port number? ______
b. What is the destination port number? ______
c. What is the length of the header? ________
d. What is the type of segment? _________
e. What is the window size? ________
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