Project 2 Clarifications

  1. Because you are implementing a stop-and-wait protocol, packets will actually not arrive out of order. However, your receiver may receive duplicate packets. You should discard any duplicates.
  2. Your Message of the Day should be long enough that it will generate multiple 16-byte packets. Also, keep in mind that the Message of the Day should change, daily.
  3. You will need to devise a way to test your protocol. For example, you might implement your sender and receiver such that they can run in a test mode. In test mode, your sender/receiver will drop packets to ensure that the loss is handled correctly.

Sami Rollins