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Re: [NANOG] Larger packets to save power, was: Re: would ip6 help us safeing energy ?


From: "Mike Fedyk" <mike () reachme com>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 12:56:38 -0700

-----Original Message-----
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch () muada com] 
think of is DoS attacks. But that can be solved by only allowing end- 
users to send an average packet size of 500 (or 250, or whatever)  
bytes. So if you have a 10 Mbps connection you don't get to 
send 14000  
64-byte packets per second, but a maximum of 2500 packets per 
second.  
So with 64-byte packets you only get to use 1.25 Mbps.

You have just cut out the VoIP industry, TCP setup, IM or most types of
real-time services on the Internet.

PS. Am I the only one who is annoyed by the reduction in usable  
subject space by the superfluous [NANOG]?


Yes you are the only one. ;)


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