Bill, See http://www.vbns.net/presentations/papers/index.html for the paper "Wide-Area Internet Traffic Patterns and Characteristics" by K. Thompson, G. J. Miller, and R. Wilder, IEEE Network, November/December 1997. You should find it relevant & interesting. Randy At 05:19 PM 4/27/98 -0400, Goldstein_William@bns.att.com wrote:

Anyone know of any studies documenting this? A know that IP packets over the Internet tend to be smaller rather than larger, but I wondered if anyone has published something.

Bill Goldstein Senior Internet Specialist AT&T wgoldstein@att.com TEL:(412)642-7288

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