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Re: Avg. Packet Size - Again?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Jul 15 20:22:15 2008

To: Sean Hafeez <sah.list@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:44:48 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:21:52 -0400
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:44:48 PDT, Sean Hafeez said:

> I would be interested in find out what the average packet size people  
> are seeing on their backbones is at this point and time?

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".

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