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Created December 16, 2021 19:15 — forked from dwallraff/mtu_overhead.md
Encapsulation MTU overhead

MTU Encapsulation overhead

  • TCP header adds 20 bytes
  • IPv4 header adds 20 bytes
  • IPv6 header adds 40 bytes

  • GRE (IP Protocol 47) (RFC 2784) adds 24 bytes (20 byte IPv4 header, 4 byte GRE header)