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Packet switching
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- 1Do networks transfer and receive alot of data?Ye
- 2What is packet switching?The break down of data, emails or files to it then to be reassembled at the target location.
- 3What is the packet assigned?It is assigned the header which contains the ip address of the network and device its being sent to.
- 4What does it also contain?It also contains the ip address of the network it was sent from.
- 5In addition to these the header also contains?The total number of packets and the order of the packets.
- 6Why would the computer request it again?If the packets get lost, the computer will request the packet to be sent again.
- 7What happens if it never arrives?The router deletes the packets.
- 8What is Header Checksum?Protects the header of the data from data corruption.
- 9What is fragment offset?The fragment offset field is measured in units of eight-byte blocks. It is 13 bits long and specifies the offset of a particular fragment relative to the beginning of the original unfragmented IP datagram. The first fragment has an offset of zero.
- 10What does padding do?Fills up unsused portions of a data structure.
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- GCSE Computing Flashcards on Packet switching, created by ongebongoewewqi uwuvuvugwegwegwe on 05/11/2018.
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