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A receiving host has failed to receive all of the segments that it should acknowledge. What can the host do to improve the reliability of this communication session?5
Q: A receiving host has failed to receive all of the segments that it should acknowledge. What can the host do to improve the reliability of this communication session?
- 1Send a different source port numberfalse
- 2Restart the virtual circuitfalse
- 3Decrease the sequence numberfalse
- 4Decrease the window sizetrue
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Answer : 4. "Decrease the window size"
Explanation :
Answer: D) Decrease the window size Explanation: A receiving host can control the transmitter by using flow control ( TCP uses windowing by default). By decreasing the window size, the receiving host can slow down the transmitting host so the receiving host does not overflow its buffers.
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