[104303] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NANOG] Larger packets to save power,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Fedyk)
Mon May 5 15:56:43 2008
From: "Mike Fedyk" <mike@reachme.com>
To: "'Iljitsch van Beijnum'" <iljitsch@muada.com>,
"'Adrian Chadd'" <adrian@creative.net.au>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 12:56:38 -0700
In-Reply-To: <B184F72C-EC57-4200-94B5-81364158A629@muada.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> -----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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