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Re: recent internet packet size samples


From: jlewis () lewis org
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:43:15 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Mark Milhollan wrote:

Bill Woodcock writes:

   > I'm interested in seeing the distribution of packet sizes across a
   > 1500-byte-constrained measurement point, with "real internet traffic"
   > going past (for some reasonable interpretation of that phrase).

Protocol         Total  Flows   Packets Bytes  Packets Active(Sec) Idle(Sec)
--------         Flows   /Sec     /Flow  /Pkt     /Sec     /Flow     /Flow
Total:       758613841  176.6         2  1170    440.8       6.1      14.6

I.e., on cisco routers with "Flow switching" enabled on all interfaces
you want data included from, the router will give you that ...

show ip cache flow
IP packet size distribution (1242M total packets):
   1-32   64   96  128  160  192  224  256  288  320  352  384  416  448  480
   .001 .436 .050 .018 .012 .008 .006 .005 .004 .005 .004 .006 .004 .003 .004

    512  544  576 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 4608
   .003 .003 .071 .030 .318 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000

These numbers may vary quite a bit depending on the nature of your "real
internet traffic".  

IP packet size distribution (34510M total packets):
   1-32   64   96  128  160  192  224  256  288  320  352  384  416  448  480
   .003 .316 .033 .024 .021 .018 .011 .010 .013 .013 .009 .010 .006 .006  .007

    512  544  576 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 4608
   .005 .005 .413 .017 .049 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000


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