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by sdeziel 1400 days ago
Nice article! However some numbers are a bit off:

The IPv4 overhead is normally 20 bytes but can reach 60 bytes with many options. For TCP, it's between 20 and 60 bytes as well.

Just ran a quick tcpdump on Linux and curl's TCP connection uses 32 bytes TCP headers (12 bytes of options).