The Standards of Networking, communications homework help

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Complete the following short answer questions:

1. How are the ephemeral port numbers generated and why are they called ephemeral?
2. In HTTP response headers, what is the syntax of most lines (which are header fields)?
3. How would TCP handle the problem if an acknowledgment was lost so that the sender retransmitted the unacknowledged TCP segment, therefore causing the receiving transport process to receive the same segment twice?
4. You need to represent 2,049 different street names. How many bits will this take if you give each street a different binary number?
5. In Figure 2-14 (page 67 of the textbook):

a) What will be the value in the destination port number field if a packet arrives for the e-mail application?
b) When the HTTP program sends an HTTP response message to a client PC, in what field of what message will it place the value 80?