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Nice article! However some numbers are a bit off: The IPv4 overhead is normally 20 bytes but can reach 60 bytes with many options. For TCP, it's between 20 and
by sdeziel 4y ago
Nice article! However some numbers are a bit off:
The IPv4 overhead is normally 20 bytes but can reach 60 bytes with many options. For TCP, it's between 20 and 60 bytes as well.
Just ran a quick tcpdump on Linux and curl's TCP connection uses 32 bytes TCP headers (12 bytes of options).