Calculating the size of a TCP Packet Payload

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In the last post I showed you how to figure out what the next protocol is after the IP header in a network packet.

Calculating the Next Layer in a Packet

Now that we know the next layer in our packet is TCP, how do we calculate the size of the TCP header, and the size of the payload?

Let’s take a look at the TCP header.