[6945] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Questions about Internet Packet Losses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Tue Jan 14 04:44:46 1997
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 01:42:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Tony Li <tli@jnx.com>
To: amb@xara.net
CC: metcalfe@infoworld.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: <199701140859.IAA01736@diamond.xara.net> (amb@xara.net)
Isn't it unsurpsrising that >40% of packets are small? ACKs?
If one made the gross oversimplifying approximation that everything is
unidirectional TCP traffic, then you'd expect to see one ACK per two data
packets. Thus, we'd expect to see 33% at 40 bytes. It is the additional
7+% that's surprising.
Tony
