On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Weidong Shao <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > I did a packet capture and found that the IP datagram size for TLS between > my browser and the first relay has different sizes, some of which are 638, > which corresponds to the fixed TOR cell size of 512. But I also see sizes > of 1500, and other values. > Does it mean that there are IP packets other than the 512-byte tor cell in > the same TLS connection?
It's just as likely that the packets aren't always getting sent in multiples of one cell. The current code puts cells in a buffer as it's about to send them, and lets the buffers and ratelimiting backends decide how much to send at a time.
