Protocol Overhead & Goodput: Headers, MTU and Jumbo Frames
This lesson is part of the course
In this lesson
You work out how many payload bytes each packet carries in five scenarios (IPv4, IPv6, timestamps, VPN, jumbo frames), the efficiency on the wire, the goodput on a 1 Gbps link and the frame rate at line speed.
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Lessons in this course
- Bits vs Bytes: Mbps, MB/s, GB and GiB Locked
- Transfer Time for Files & Backups (and When a Courier Wins) Locked
- Propagation Delay & RTT from Distance (Speed of Light in Fibre) Locked
- Bandwidth-Delay Product & the TCP Window Limit Locked
- Packet Loss & Throughput: the Mathis Formula (Simplified) Locked
- Protocol Overhead & Goodput: Headers, MTU and Jumbo Frames Locked
- Link Utilisation & Queueing Delay (M/M/1, Simplified) Locked
- Sizing a WAN Link: 95th-Percentile Billing (Chart) Locked