UDP Datagram UDP

Transport variable UDP datagram unverified

A UDP datagram — an eight-octet header plus application data.

Reading a capture

Twenty octets smaller than TCP's header, which is most of why real-time traffic uses it. On a wireless link the saving is airtime on every single packet, and voice frames are small enough that header overhead is a meaningful fraction of the transmission.

Subfields

Where it sits

UDP Datagram

Accuracy

Clause
RFC 768
Verified
Not verified against the standard. Treat this as a claim, not a fact.