David Barrett wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alexander Pevzner
>> Subject: [p2p-hackers] Re: Silly question about UDP
>>
>> David,
>>
>> roughly speaking, the "price" of one frame, in a transmission time
>> terms, can be computed by the following formula:
>>
>>     N * (size + C),
>>
>> where C is a constant that depends on a media type and media conditions.
> 
> Sorry to be dense, but what unit are we talking about?  If "size" is the sum
> of all payload and header data, it must be "bytes".  Is C also bytes?

Yes.

> Likewise, what is N, and what is the unit of the final calculation --
> microseconds?  Euros?

See above, "in a transmission time terms". Transmission time is usually
counted in microseconds rather that in Euros :-)
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