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
>
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