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From: tarun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:00:51 -0500 (CDT)
Hi I am a new Ethreal user and am no guru in networking.
I'd like to know how one goes about associating a packet to the
application that is sending it? and how do I get the actual data size of a
packet.

What I am trying to do is to measure the overhead a encryption like SSL
puts on a file say 10KB.

10KB File--->SSL encryption program--> Ethreal --->network
                                          ^
                                          trying to find how much that
                                          10KB file has become 10KB+??
                                          so i capture the packets of
                                          the encryption program and
                                          calculate the total size of 
                                          the encrypted file.

as i said before i am new to packet sniffing and can use all the help i
can get.

Thanx
Tarun

Tarun.G.Acharya
3102 dodge Street
Omaha,NE.USA