how can i know how many bytes have i sent and received. I forgot that packet size can be variable factor. ya your answer make sense. but how can i know the the bytes transfered or received
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandip Bhattacharya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 7:53 PM Subject: [ilugd]: Re: : silly question > On 12/12/02 19:48 +0530, Gollum thus spake: > > i have an internet connection. now when all that i am doing is downloading. > > uploading nothing. yet i have > > > > 29 thousand something send packets > > 27 thousand received > > > > what does this mean. how could i be sending more data than receiving. When > > all i am doing is basically downloading an album over ftp. > > > > wierd man > > No. Need not be weird. What would be weird is when the byte upload and > byte download sizes are the same. In TCP, every packet needs to be > acknowledged from the other side otherwise it would get > re-transmitted. So what you have might just be normal. > > A downloaded packet might be 1024 bytes long while a cknowledgement > packet might just be 40 bytes long. > > - Sandip > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------- > Sandip Bhattacharya > sandipb <@> bigfoot.com > http://www.sandipb.net GPG/PGP: 0x08EB637C > -------------------------------------------------------- > > ================================================ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > > ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
