Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 12:51:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV> Cc: Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net>, spork <spork@super-g.com>, Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>, root@bmccane.maxbaud.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TweakDUN Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980620125006.21731A-100000@echonyc.com> In-Reply-To: <199806200720.AAA24228@stennis.ca.sandia.gov>
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On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > Where you *do* lose is the fact that for each of those packets, you > have 40 bytes of headers (20 IP + 20 TCP) that you can't lose for > data. So you can use 1460/1500 = 97% of the bytes in a packet for > "real data", or 536/576 = 93% of the bytes. (Again, discounting > link-level framing overheads.) Except that your link-layer protocol probably does header compression, which is AFAIK only done on serial point-to-point networks, where the headers are all largely similar. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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