Please read the short case at the end of Chapter 8, "Mary Barra of General Motors Values Culture". Use the following prompts to
start thinking about the case and the chapter materials. Post your thoughts to the discussion, making sure to consider the requirements in the Grading Rubric. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO ALL THE QUESTIONS BELOW IN ONE POST! These questions are just meant to get you thinking-- you do not need to address each question in one post.
TCP/IP, or the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, is a suite of communication protocols used to interconnect network devices on the internet. TCP/IP can also be used as a communications protocol in a private network (an intranet or an extranet).
The sequence number in a header is used to keep track of which segment out of many this particular segment might be. The next field, the acknowledgment number, is a lot like the sequence number. The acknowledgment number is the number of the next expected segment.
The 32 bit sequence number field defines the number assigned to the first byte of data contained in this segment. TCP is a stream transport protocol. To ensure connectivity, each byte to be transmitted is numbered.
