[75115] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W Gilmore)
Fri Nov 5 00:57:46 2004
In-Reply-To: <418B1382.20502@he.iki.fi>
Cc: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 00:57:17 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Nov 5, 2004, at 12:45 AM, Petri Helenius wrote:
> Netflow is based on port numbers and many run bittorrent on fairly
> random ports. Look at the 30%+ unidentified on the report.
Yes, but HTTP tends to run on the same port, and it only made 15.76% of
bits and 18.53% of the packets.
I know P2P is "big", but is HTTP really only 16% of the bits on the
'Net?
Question is: Is this data representative of "Internet 1"? I'm thinking
not, since "Iperf" was more bits than HTTP.
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TTFN,
patrick
