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Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, 4th Edition

Solutions to Review Questions and Problems

Version Date: October 29, 2007

This document contains the solutions to review questions and problems for the 4th edition of Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet by Jim Kurose and Keith Ross. These solutions are being made available to instructors ONLY. Please do NOT copy or distribute this document to others (even other instructors). Please do not post any solutions on a publicly-available Web site. We’ll be happy to provide a copy (up-to-date) of this solution manual ourselves to anyone who asks.

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TOC \o "1-3" \h \u 8993 Chapter 1 Review Questions 2

21050 Chapter 2 Review Questions 13

10530 Chapter 3 Problems 32

4994 Chapter 4 Review Questions 53

29710 Chapter 5 Review Questions 72

Chapter 1 Review Questions

There is no difference. Throughout this text, the words “host” and “end system” are used interchangeably. End systems include PCs, workstations, Web servers, mail servers, Internet-connected PDAs, WebTVs, etc.

Suppose Alice, an ambassador of country A wants to invite Bob, an ambassador of country B, over for dinner. Alice doesn’t simply just call Bob on the phone and say, “come to our dinner table now”. Instead, she calls Bob and suggests a date and time. Bob may respond by saying he’s not available that particular date, but he is available another date. Alice and Bob continue to send “messages” back and forth until they agree on a date and time. Bob then shows up at the embassy on the agreed date, hopefully not more than 15 minutes before or after the agreed time. Diplomatic protocols also allow for either Alice or Bob to politely cancel the engagement if they have reasonable excuses.

A networking program usually has two programs, each running on a different host, communicating with each other. The program that initia