Chapter 4 Sample Questions
Chapter 4 Sample Questions
1) p. 396, P14
Consider sending a 1,600-byte datagram into a link that has an MTU of 500 bytes.
Suppose the original datagram is stamped with the identification number 291.
How many fragment are generated? What are the values in the various field in the
IP datagram(s) generated related to fragmentation?
Answer:
The maximum size of data field in each fragment = 480 (because there are 20 bytes IP
Each fragment will have Identification number 291. Each fragment except the last one
will be of size 500 bytes (including IP header). The last datagram will be of size 160
bytes (including IP header). The offsets of the 4 fragments will be 0, 60, 120, 180.
Each of the first 3 fragments will have flag=1; the last fragment will have flag=0.