End to End Operation

Suppose we have the following scenario:

• Host H1 boots up
• Fetches small file from H5
• Goes idle
• Fetches two small files from H2

Here’s what will happen:

1. DHCP to get configuration
   1. UDP Discover => broadcast
   2. UDP Offer from H4 <- H1
   3. UDP Request => broadcast
   4. UDP ack <- H1
2. ARP for DNS server
   1. ARP request for H3 => broadcast
   2. H3 ARP response <- unicast to H1
3. Resolve H5
   1. UDP DNS request for H5.com => H3
   2. UDP DNS response <- H1
4. ARP for R1
   1. ARP request for R1 => broadcast
   2. ARP response from R1 <- H1
5. TCP connection to H5
   1. TCP SYN => H5
   2. TCP SYNACK <- H1
   3. TCP ACK => H5
6. HTTP request to H5
   1. TCP HTTP GET => H5
   2. TCP ACK <- H1
   3. HTTP response <- H1
   4. ACK => H5
   5. (after download completes and connection becomes idle for a while) FIN => H5
7. TCP disconnect from H5
   1. ACK <- H1
   2. FIN <- H1
   3. ACK => H5 The rest of the steps are extremely similar to the above.
8. Resolve H2
9. ARP for H2
10. TCP to H2
11. HTTP to H2
12. HTTP to H2 (2)
13. TCP disconnect from H\2