[OCLUG-devel] estimate #s of TCP bytes ?

[John de la Garza]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:18:57AM -0400, Joshua Robinson wrote:
> Greetings Lugers,
> 
> 
> Estimation Problem: I assume each message send is one TCP packet.
> 
> Q:  I send "HELLO" as an email message.  How can I estimate the number(s)
> of bytes required to send ?


Do you mean one IP packet?  TCP is provides a stream.  Are you considering
talking to the SMTP server?  I don't think this is done with one packet, but
rather a conversation using several requests and responses.

are you sending this with SMTP or SMTPS?