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Security in Computing 5th Edition by Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Charles P Pfleeger, Jonathan Margulies

Edition 5ISBN: 0134085043
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Security in Computing 5th Edition by Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Charles P Pfleeger, Jonathan Margulies

Edition 5ISBN: 0134085043
Exercise 12

What security advantage occurs from a packet’s containing the source NIC address and not just the destination NIC address?

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Security Advantage

When DATA is transmitted from one source computer to another destination computer, then it is never advised to send DATA in bulk, as it will use large quantity of bandwidth allocation, but to split it into small packets. These packets contain the message to be sent, the MAC address of the source computer, MAC address of the destination computer, packet number, and total number of packets; as shown in figure below:

    <div class=answer> Security Advantage When DATA is transmitted from one source computer to another destination computer, then it is never advised to send DATA in bulk, as it will use large quantity of bandwidth allocation, but to split it into small packets. These packets contain the message to be sent, the MAC address of the source computer, MAC address of the destination computer, packet number, and total number of packets; as shown in figure below:


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