Questions tagged [layer4]
For questions about OSI Layer 4 (transport layer).
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Can TCP stand for “Transport Control Protocol”
I know it might sound like a silly question, but afaik TCP stands for transmission control protocol. However I found a couple of websites using the term Transport Control Protocol.
So I was wondering ...
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How does triple handshake avoid establishing connection for duplicate packets(coming later down the line)
The idea behind triple handshake seems to be for duplicates to not cause issues.
The way I understand it host sends a sequence x to server. Server acknowledges it and sends it's own sequence y. Host ...
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Do sequence and acknowledgment numbers treat 3-Way Handshake differently?
1- Just as the message ID that is assigned to each message in PAR, the "sequence number" is a means of providing reliability in a transfer of a byte stream. So sequence numbers are assigned to every ...
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Is a datagram from an upper network layer converted 1:1 to one of the lower layer?
I know datagrams from upper layers are converted to those of lower layers by adding metadata, but I cannot seem to find this information anywhere. Which one of the below is correct?
A single TCP ...
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Why TCP is not in layer 5? [duplicate]
I read that TCP is in layer 4. But i also read that to send data with TCP i have to establish a session (in the handshaking phase). Does this mean that if we work only up to layer 4 TCP is useless (...
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Sequence numbers of segments in three way handshakes of TCP connection establishment or termination
I was trying to understand TCP connection establishment and termination steps from Forouzan's book.
In third step of three way handshake of connection establishment, it says following
The client ...
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Is TCP aware of MAC adress
lets say I would like to make connection between client and server on port 80. Is 3 way handshake aware of server MAC address? I mean: client send SYN data packet to specific IP:port and MAC. In ...
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When TCP sender window shrinks?
I was learning TCP from Forouzan's book. It explains sender side window as follows:
In that it defines size of receiver window as follows:
rwnd = receiver buffer size - number of bytes waiting to ...
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ports and security
I'm thinking about how the "port" operates for the network connections and tried reading the CCNA cert. guide to understand the details, however, I need to clarify doubts:
does occupying all the TCP/...
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Finding MSS for a remote connection that uses tunnelling
I'm working on a codebase where we're trying to test network health by verifying if we can ping the remote site having payload = MSS without any packet fragmentation (using -df flag).
Typically, for ...
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how OSI and TCP/IP layers work? [duplicate]
I am really confused by how the layers these model work. I'm not asking about what are their functions. I read that transport layer provides end-to-end of all packet delivery, and networking also ...
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How does browser decide which destination port to use?
Suppose I have a Vanilla machine and this is the first time I am connecting it to Internet. There is no Cache at any level. I access a website through browser by typing example.com (no http//: or ...
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Why do transport layer do data chunking. If there is fragmentation in Network Layer
I just curiously wanted to know about the question regarding L4, L3 Data Chunks, IP Fragmentation :
Data chunking happened at Layer 4(Transport, TCP), and
Fragmentation at Layer 3(Network, ipv4)
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Why server cannot send data in TCP three-way handshaking?
In the three-way handshaking, only from the ACK packet we can send data.
Why cannot the server send data with SYN-ACK packet? I understated why a client cannot send data to a server (preventing, for ...
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What's the use of an acknowledgement number without the ACK flag set?
Isn't it redundant if the ACK flag in the header isn't also on?
Do you ever mix an acknowledgement with a normal message - send data and acknowledge a message in the same TCP segment?
I feel like ...
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TCP Three Way Handshake?
I have the following query about the tcp handshake.
To establish a connection the server must send a packet with SYN flag to 1
Then the server replies with a SYN,ACK flag to 1 , and afterwards the ...
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If an old FIN is delivered, will TCP terminate the new connection?
Two programs use a TCP connection (3-way handshake) to open, communicate, terminate the connection and open a new connection. If a FIN message sent to shut down the first connection is duplicated and ...
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Can anyone explain to me the difference between the PSH and URG flags in TCP segment?
According to me when PSH flag is set, it indicates that data will have to be sent immediately to the wire and on receiving side the data has to be pushed to the application immediately.
When URG flag ...
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Is an RST only segment ever legitimate?
Is a TCP segment with RST but no ACK ever legitimately encountered today?
While some kernels emit such an RST when a SYN segment is sent "illegitimately" from themselves (e.g., nmap half-syn, scapy, ...
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Of what layer is socket a concept?
In network layer, IP address is a concept.
In transport layer, port is a concept. Is socket a concept of transport layer? If not, what is the corresponding concept to socket in transport layer? Of ...
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How MPTCP closed connection?
how MPTCP connection with more than one subflow closed? what would happen to MPTCP connection if a client decide to close one of the subflows? it would be very kind of you if you explain it step by ...
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Can a ACK or SEQ Number exceed a range and crash the NIC?
I was watching the TCP Stream out of pure curiosity of my FTP Server and saw that the ACK and SEQ number increases by one with each sequence being transmitted successfully. I am not sure, but ...
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acknowledgment by TCP does not guarantee that the data has been delivered
In RFC 793 there is a part about the acknowledgment of TCP segments:
When the TCP transmits a segment containing data, it puts a copy on a
retransmission queue and starts a timer; when the ...
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How can a UDP Client and a packet sniffer run on the same machine?
In my understanding, if you have a UDP socket client that is bound to a particular port, then a second UDP client on the same machine can't bind to the same port.
If this is the case, then how can a ...
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Question about output of 'lsof -i' and UDP being connectionless
I'v got a simple setup:
Server (IP 10.0.0.33) listening on port 7770 using the command:
$ netcat -lup 7770
And a client (IP 10.0.0.2) that communicates with the server using:
$ nc -u 10.0.0.33 ...
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How does the Transport Layer construct the Pseudo-Header for TCP checksum?
THE TCP Psuedo Header needs sender and destination IP Address and protocol type. All of this informations is present in the network layer/IP header. Since the transport layer cannot access the data ...
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Processing received SACK information in case of reordering
I would like to understand how TCP receiver in established state should treat SACK information of out-of-order and fully within receive window segments,
where rcv_nxt < seq_no < rvc_nxt + ...
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Why is a TCP Socket identified by a 4 tuple?
Newbie to networking here. I'm reading the Computer Networking (3rd edition) book, and in section 3.2 they are discussing multiplexing / demultiplexing for both UDP and TCP.
In the UDP protocol, a ...
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How can a TCP window size be allowed to be larger than the maximum size of an ethernet packet?
I know that TCP window sizes can be scaled to over 64KB, but looking at an ethernet packet datagram, such as this one:
it looks like a layer 2 packet is limited in size to be much smaller than that. ...
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Questions about TCP packets
I am currently in college learning about networks, and I just wanted to make sure that I understood part of the TCP correctly.
The question is "What does TCP use to reassemble packets in the correct ...
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TCP connection question
Let’s say I have 4 ethernet interfaces getting IP addresses via DHCP.
I make a TCP connection to a TCP server via one of the IP addresses on a certain ethernet interface. After the connection is ...
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Sender and Receiver timers in GBN, SR and TCP?
So basically for each of the GBN, SR and TCP's retransmission method, i have 2 question:
1.Is there a Timeout timer for EACH packet or one timeout timer for all of the packets?
2.Is there a ...
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At which layer does router operate?
I have studied from various sources that router is a layer 3 device. It does routing based on Network layer (layer 3) header, but I have a doubt.
Network address translation (NAT) is a feature of ...
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TCP close 2-way handshake with tcpdump package
Well, I got a pcap package that uses the tcpdump command. In this pcap, the TCP closes in 2-way handshake!
Questions：
In this picture, can anyone determine who initiated the signal to
close the ...
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Why is ARQ (Automatic Repeat reQuest) named so?
I can't make sense of a naming for Automatic Repeat reQuest.
The idea is that ARQ is a method for transmitting data without negative ACKs, so standard ARQ flow is:
Sender sends a packet
If sender ...
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Send TCP request to closed port, In which layer will the request be discarded
Client send TCP packet to server to a closed port， ie 80.
In which layer will the sync packet be discarded?
I guess for Client, the request will timeout, for server it should discard the request ...
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Relationship between TCP window size and TCP congestion control
Am I correct that TCP receive window(which is a send window for the sender) has nothing to do with TCP CUBIC congestion control? TCP receive window is solely a property of TCP flow control?
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How is tcp/ip implemented
Well, first of all I am new to networking.
And I have studied the layered structure of tcp/ip protocol stack.
I know that the layered structure is an abstract model, but I didn't know how the ...
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Does 1-byte transmission for probe segment operate based on Timeout?
I wonder what ACK number would be if the receive buffer of receiver side is full.
For example, Consider a case that sender transmits a segment whose SEQ is 800, and 100 bytes size. Because the receive ...
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Active Queue Management
Was reading through one of the papers on Active Queue Management.Just hit upon this paragraph, which I couldn't understand.Got confused at this part:
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2209336
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Does TCP open a new connection for every packet that is sent?
This might be a silly question but a me and few buddies have been discussing the potential limitations of TCP. We have an application that is going to listen for clients (think of a gateway) and route ...
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How does NAT decide which connections are inbound, and which are outbound?
I'm building a P2P application that needs to be able to access nodes behind a NAT. This NAT does not allow inbound connections, therefore the nodes outside the network cannot reach out to the nodes ...
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Port Numbers related doubt
Assume we have two browsers (Chrome and Firefox) running simultaneously, and both are requesting a web page. Lets assume Chrome is requesting www.facebook.com, and Firefox is requesting www.youtube....
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TCP Vegas: formula for expected number of backlogged packets
While reading Issues in TCP Vegas by Richard J. La, Jean Walrand and Venkat Anantharam (available online here), I stumbled across the following sentence (Part 3 - Rerouting, page 4):
When the ...
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Is a TCP server limited to 65535 clients?
One might think that this places a hard limit on the number of clients that a single computer/application can maintain.
One could be overseeing a web server, and be required to ensure that it can ...
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Why does NAT translate a source port?
I’m beginning to learn about nat and I was wondering why does NAT translate a source port? Doesn’t a port represent an application that’s requesting a service? So why must it be translated? Also what ...
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How does a router a layer 3 device translate port address in PAT, as it is a layer 3 device?
While I was reading about PAT i.e Port Address Translation.The router was configured to translate all the private IP addresses to one single public IP.Since router is a layer-3 device, it can do that ...
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Does the OSI model support connectionless communication in the transport layer? [closed]
In section 7.4.4.1.2 of ISO/IEC 7498-1:1994(E) it begins with:
In connectionless-mode, the Transport Layer provides the following
functions to support connectionless-mode transmission:
But many ...
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TCP streams/connections
I want to ask how TCP creates streams (and what exactly is a stream). In Wireshark for example, I see multiple streams to one server and I can not understand how/when TCP creates this streams from the ...
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Confusion regarding Port number
I may sound silly but I seem to be getting confused with what port numbers are used for.
Someplace it's mentioned that port addresses are used for port translation using pat which i get.
Somewhere it'...
