[15053] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MTU of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Thu Feb 5 23:51:45 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 20:38:41 -0800
To: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@blackrose.org>, nanog@merit.edu
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@geo.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980205204529.32468@blackrose.org>
At 05:45 PM 2/5/98 , Dorian R. Kim wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 04:47:36PM +0100, Per Gregers Bilse wrote:
>> FWIW, our router at MAE-East says:
>>
>> IP packet size distribution (38569M total packets):
>> 1-32 64 96 128 160 192 224 256 288 320 352 384 416 448
480
>> .000 .400 .046 .016 .018 .012 .008 .009 .011 .012 .006 .007 .005 .004
.004
>>
>> 512 544 576 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 4608
>> .010 .006 .120 .000 .099 .197 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000
>>
>> It's been up for some weeks and the sample size is, well, OK. As
>> expected, large number at the low end, but I'm not sure what to think
>
>Bug. I believe counters a shifted by one slot from 1024. As you'll note
>that that slot is empty.
>
>-dorian
>
I'll bet that is true, since histograms for the last couple of years have
shown clusters at 40, 512, 576, 1024 and a tiny bit of 1500. Looks like it
hasn't changed much since.
--Kent
