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Date:      Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:36:51 +0100
From:      "Nick A. Fikouras" <nick@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   40 octet IP header?
Message-ID:  <362DE373.4A79CFC2@dcs.shef.ac.uk>

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In several tcp connections performed between two freebsd-2.2.2 machines
connected with an Ethernet link (mtu 1500 octets), I observed with
tcpdump that the data field takes up only 1440 octets of the whole IP
packet. Assuming that the tcp header is 20 octets long, this leaves us
with a 40 octet IP header. Obviously, by default the system requires
some options in the IP header (i.e. timestamp). How can I configure this
default options, even turn them off?


thank you in advance,

--nick


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