Question

A communication between two devices is over the maximum limit of an ethernet frame size. The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) splits up the data into segments. Which field in the header helps keep track of the many segments

Answer 1

The sequence number in the header helps to keep a track of various segments.

• TCP breaks all the data into several segments at the transport layer. The sequence number in a header is used to keep track of what section this particular segment might be out of many.
• The next field, which is the number of acknowledgments, is much like the number of sequences.The number of the acknowledgment is the number of the section that is planned next.