Re: Average and median IP packet size over the Internet?

[Al Reuben <alex () nac net>]

no publised, but from my real-world router:

nyc6>sho ip cach flo                                                                                                    
            
IP packet size distribution (448264806 total packets):
   1-32   64   96  128  160  192  224  256  288  320  352  384  416  448  480
   .000 .577 .079 .040 .025 .012 .008 .007 .007 .010 .006 .006 .004 .004 .003

    512  544  576 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 4608
   .002 .004 .075 .015 .106 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000


57.7% are 64 bytes. Sampling of over 448 million (1/2 billion) packets. 1
day, 3 hour sample. Interesting/neat spike at 576 and 1536.



IP Flow Switching Cache, 4456448 bytes
  10093 active, 55443 inactive, 20096291 added
  99408180 ager polls, 0 flow alloc failures
  Exporting flows to 207.99.5.189 (2055)
  Exporting using source interface Loopback0
  Version 5 flow records, origin-as
  20093196 flows exported in 716895 udp datagrams, 0 failed
  last clearing of statistics 1d03h


On Mon, 27 Apr 1998 Goldstein_William () bns att com wrote:

> Anyone know of any studies documenting this?  A know that IP packets
> over the Internet tend to be smaller rather than larger, but I wondered
> if anyone has published something.
>
>
> Bill Goldstein
> Senior Internet Specialist
> AT&T
> wgoldstein () att com
> TEL:(412)642-7288

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