[15028] in North American Network Operators' Group
MTU size & IP packet size distributions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ran Atkinson)
Thu Feb 5 13:38:18 1998
From: rja@corp.home.net (Ran Atkinson)
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:22:36 -0800
In-Reply-To: "Matt Ranney" <mjr@ranney.com>
"Re: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted" (Feb 4, 17:14)
To: nanog@merit.edu
Not to interrupt a discussion by adding measured data,
but there is some collected data on MTU sizes around the net.
I believe kc has some packet statistics data online at NLANR.
Alternately, there is some @Home packet size data (from
Mike Schwartz) online in PDF format at:
ftp://ftp.home.net/pub/rja/home-pkt-dist.pdf
Folks perusing the @Home data should keep in mind that nearly
all residential customers have 10baseT Ethernet access to the
Internet. So we have near zero packets larger than Ethernet MTU.
:-)
Ran
