1) What is the IP address and TCP port number used by the client computer (source)
that is transferring the file to gaia.cs.unmass.edu?
2) What is the IP address of gaia.cs.umass.edu? On what port number is it sending and receiving TCP segment for this connection?
3) What is the IP address and TCP port number used by your client computer (source)
to transfer the file to gaia.cs.unmass.edu?
4) What is the sequence number of the TCP SYN segment that is used to initiate the TCP connection between the client computer and gaia.cs.unmass.edu? What is it in the segment that identifies the segment as a SYN segment?
5) What is the sequence number of the SYNACK segment sent by gaia.cs.unmass.edu to the client computer in reply to the SYN? What is the value of the Acknowledgement field in the SYNACK segment? How did gaia.cs.unmass.edu determine the value? What is it in the segment that identifies the segment as a SYNACK segment.
6) What is the sequence number of the TCP segment containing the HTTP POST
command?
7) Consider the TCP segment containing the HTTP POST as the first segment in the TCP connection. What are the sequence numbers of the first six segments in the TCP connection (including the segment containing the HTTP POST)? At what time was each segment sent? When was the ACK for each segment received? Given the difference between when each TCP segment was sent, and when its
acknowledgement was received, what is the RTT value for each of the six segments? What is the EstimatedRTT value (see Section 3.5.3, page 242 in text) after the receipt of each ACK? Assume that the value of the Estimated RTT is equal to the measured RTT for the first segment, and then is computed using the EstimatedRTT equation on page 242 for all subsequent segments.
8) What is the length of each of the six TCP segments?
9) What is the minimum amount of available buffer space advertised at the received for
the entire trace? Does the lack of receiver buffer space ever throttle the sender?
10) Are there any retransmitted segments in the trace file? What did you check for (in the trace) in order to answer this question?
11) How much data does the receiver typically acknowledge in a ACK? Can you identify cases where the receiver is ACKing every other received segment (see Table 3.2 on page 250 in the text).
12) What is the throughput (bytes transferred per unit time) for the TCP connection?
Explain how you calculated this value.
13) Us the Time-Sequence-Graph (Stevens) plotting tool to view the sequence number versus time plot of segments being sent from the client to the Gaia.cs.umass.edu server. Can you identify where TCP’s slowstart phase begins and ends, and where congestion avoidance takes over? Comment on ways in which the measured data differs from the idealized behavior of TCP that we’ve studied in the text.
14) Answer question 13 for the trace that you captured when you transferred a file from your own computer to the gaia.cs.umass.edu.
