[Winpcap-users] question regarding retrieving ip_len

[ahsan askari]

Could anybody please tell me what this piece of code will do

ip_len = (ih->ver_ihl & 0xf) * 4;

I know that we are "anding" ver_ihl to make all the bits equal to 1 but why
are we multiplying it by 4.

Thank you
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