Re: ipchains

[Chris Andrews]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Simon Garner wrote:

> From: "Ben Kennish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> > Whoops I mean I sent 2 x pings of 32 bytes each 2 x 32 = 64.
> > ----
> > Ben Kennish
> > email | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> 
> 
> Ok, that is strange then :)

Not that strange:

IPv4 header:  24 bytes 
ICMP header:  4 bytes
ICMP payload: 32 bytes

total per packet: 60 bytes

so two packets will increase the byte counter by 120 bytes, as you saw.


Chris.