[163979] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: net neutrality and peering wars continue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil Harris)
Sat Jun 22 09:19:53 2013
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:19:18 +0100
From: Neil Harris <neil@tonal.clara.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAEmG1=rj3oWhmbJfqpZZo9zKpXko_fRh4Gkjhp+fXunBcWPP2A@mail.gmail.com>
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On 22/06/13 13:08, Matthew Petach wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:29 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:39:56 +0200, Niels Bakker said:
>>
>>> You're mistaken if you think that CDNs have equal number of packets
>>> going in and out.
>> And even if the number of packets match, there's the whole "1500 bytes
>> of data, 64 bytes of ACK" thing to factor in...
>>
>
> That's easily solved by padding the ACK to 1500 bytes as well.
>
> Matt
>
Or indeed by the media player sending large amounts of traffic back to
the CDN via auxiliary HTTP POST requests?
Neil
