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CS456/556 - Internet Services - Week 3 Assignment

[e-mail your answers to summers_wayne@ColumbusState.edu by 3:00 p.m. MST Tuesday, Sept. 14, 1999]
  1. List as many protocols as you can that form the basis of The TCP/IP Internet Protocol Suite.
  2. Find and read an RFC that describes one of the protocols for TCP/IP. What is its number? Briefly describe what you discovered in an e-mail to the CS456/556 discussion group.
  3. Find out how many computers are estimated to be "on the Internet" today.
  4. "Current Internet technology can connect a maximum of 4,294,967,296 computers". Explain in detail why this maximum exists.

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