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Re: Avg. Packet Size - Again?
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () utc edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:32:41 -0400
As Valdis stated earlier:
I predict that if you graph it, there's a ton of packets that are right around the MTU of the network. almost equal number of tiny packets carrying the ACK's of the mobygrams, and then a small noise level of "everything else".
That's pretty much the case for the last decade. Way back when the "net" had more telnet and "terminal based things" the numbers were skewed to the left, but you can hardly say "Hello World" in HTTP/HTML/XML/CSS/Ajax/Javascript these days in under a megabyte :-)
Sample from our border:
UTC-Edge#sho ip cache flow IP packet size distribution (1566M total packets):1-32 64 96 128 160 192 224 256 288 320 352 384 416 448 480 .000 .412 .120 .022 .010 .003 .004 .002 .002 .001 .001 .003 .001 .001 .001512 544 576 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 4608 .005 .001 .003 .027 .371 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000
versus our core:
UTC-Core#sho ip cache flow IP packet size distribution (22714M total packets):1-32 64 96 128 160 192 224 256 288 320 352 384 416 448 480 .000 .453 .073 .022 .011 .052 .069 .045 .011 .005 .009 .013 .020 .007 .001512 544 576 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 4608 .001 .001 .001 .009 .188 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000
But those are fairly stock IPv4, no jumbos, plain-jane ethernet numbers. Jeff
Current thread:
- Avg. Packet Size - Again? Sean Hafeez (Jul 15)
- RE: Avg. Packet Size - Again? Darryl Dunkin (Jul 15)
- Re: Avg. Packet Size - Again? Wayne E. Bouchard (Jul 16)
- Re: Avg. Packet Size - Again? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 15)
- Re: Avg. Packet Size - Again? Glen Turner (Jul 16)
- Re: Avg. Packet Size - Again? Randy Bush (Jul 16)
- Re: Avg. Packet Size - Again? Jeff Kell (Jul 16)
- Re: Avg. Packet Size - Again? Fred Baker (Jul 16)
- Re: Avg. Packet Size - Again? k claffy (Jul 23)
- Re: Avg. Packet Size - Again? Glen Turner (Jul 16)
- RE: Avg. Packet Size - Again? Darryl Dunkin (Jul 15)
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- Re: Avg. Packet Size - Again? Scott Weeks (Jul 17)