[ENet-discuss] Enet Header size

Lee Salzman lsalzman1 at cox.net
Wed Jan 7 19:18:15 PST 2009


The size of a header for an individual user packet WITHIN a protocol 
packet is about 6-8 bytes. Each protocol packet (which groups as many 
user packets as it can up to the MTU) has a header size of 8 bytes.

Lee

Peter Soxberger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm currently improving my code that calculates the actual transferrate. Does anybody of you know, how much overhead I produce if I send a single packet? I know that there is the UDP Header which is 8 Byte big. But how much is used by ENet?
>
> If I calculate the real size of a packet, is this correct:
>
> [UDP Header]+[ENet Headers]+[packet->dataLength] = Packet Size
>
> Thanks for your help!
>   



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