By knowing the packet size, next what??

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you know the size of the packets that will be using it, then it is
> simple to cover from one to the other. That's more likely in a simulator
> than the real world though.
>
> IIRC, TCP acks are usually 48 bytes, but this may vary if extension
> options and/or IPv6 are in use. Check this yourself on the traffic you're
> testing. In the forward data flow direction, expect most packets to be at
> the link segment size limit, 1500 bytes for Ethernet.
>
> But if you have heterogeneous or bidirectional traffic, this calculation
> breaks down. This may simply be one limitation of ns2.
>
> - Jonathan Morton
>