Fun_People Archive
19 May
QOTD - RFC 1144, 5/19/94

Date: Thu, 19 May 94 14:54:11 PDT
To: Fun_People
Subject: QOTD - RFC 1144, 5/19/94

Forwarded-by: bostic@vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: Paul Borman <prb@cray.com>

The header size is 40 bytes: 20 bytes of IP and 20 of TCP.  Unfortunately,
since the TCP and IP protocols were not designed by a committee, all these
header fields serve some useful purpose and it's not possible to simply
omit some in the name of efficiency.

	-- Van Jacobson, Network Working Group, RFC 1144

© 1994 Peter Langston