[105988] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Avg. Packet Size - Again?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glen Turner)
Wed Jul 16 05:10:39 2008
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:10:11 +1000
From: Glen Turner <gdt@gdt.id.au>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <43515.1216167712@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 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".
Our network also shows peaks at the ethernet MTU (our MTU is higher than that)
and the DNS packet size.
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Glen Turner
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