Class NetConst

Network related constants.

Inheritance

object

NetConst

Namespace: Neon.Net

Assembly: Neon.Common.dll

Syntax

public class NetConst

Fields

DefaultMTU

The default message transmission unit that is commonly configured across the internet. This is the size in bytes of the largest packet including all of the protocol headers from OSI layers 3 and above. This does not include the data link (e.g. Ethernet) overhead.

Packets larger than this may need to be fragmented (if allowed) to be transmitted end-to-end across several connected networks.

Declaration

public const int DefaultMTU = 1500

Field Value

Type	Description
int

ICMPHeader

The size in bytes of an ICMP packet header.

Declaration

public const int ICMPHeader = 28

Field Value

Type	Description
int

IPHeader

The size in bytes of an IP packet header.

Declaration

public const int IPHeader = 20

Field Value

Type	Description
int

TCPHeader

The size in bytes of all headers (IP and TCP) added to a TCP packet.

Declaration

public const int TCPHeader = 40

Field Value

Type	Description
int

VXLANHeader

The size of VXLAN headers in bytes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Extensible_LAN is a protocol used in cloud and other virtualization environments to scale and separate network traffic between multiple tenants. Network traffic is empasulated in UDP packets with a header added to that identifies the virtual network. This constant specifies the header overhead in bytes.

Declaration

public const int VXLANHeader = 8

Field Value

Type	Description
int