Thank you very much Chris.
I knew that TCP/IP had packet overhead but now I know that it's
substantially more than I thought initially.
Thanks again,
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Ben Kennish
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: ipchains
>
> 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.
>
