Question

The TCP sequence number has 32 bits what is the maximum packet size such that the sequence number is not exhausted?

**Please Explain the solution when you answer my questions because I don't know how to solve it :(

Answer 1

Solution:

Given,

=>Sequence number field = 32 bits

Explanation:

Calculating maximum size of packet:

=>Maximum size of packet = 2^number of bits in the sequence number

=>Maximum size of packet = 2^32 bytes

=>Maximum size of packet = 2^2*2^30 bytes

=>Maximum size of packet = 4*2^30 bytes

=>Maximum size of packet = 4 GB as 1 GB = 2^30 bytes

=>Hence maximum packet size = 4 GB

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