April 2015 archive

Encapsulation Overhead

There are variuos methods to encapsulate and tunnel traffic.  Each one of these protocols adds an “envelope” to the packet which means more overhead and a bigger packet size.  Here are a few of these protocols:   Protocol Overhead Bytes IP 20 UDP 8 TCP 20 802.1Q 4 OTV 42 VXLAN 50 STT 54 GRE …

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