137: The Origins of the Internet with John Day
Programming Throwdown
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How to Get the Sequence Numbers Right?
Of the four protocols we could have picked, are the four or five at the time, t c p was the worst. If you analyze those protocols carefully, for the two big things in t c p, tha different is that there's only one header for mat. There's only one paketype, everything's the same flin. That makes for a very large header, ok. Second of all, the sequence numbersu the bites, not the packets, really? Yes? Why? What's the distinction there? So i gif you, no, the size of a packet, and you can know it sequenceeextry.
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