On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, Mike Leber wrote:
|} Has anybody collected stream duration data? What does the distribution |} look like? 98% of streams last how long? (I bet less than 5 minutes) |} I think something like this was brought up at the Ann Arbor NANOG.
What are you calling a 'stream' ? People are starting to collect flow data in quite a few places with some interesting results.
-jh-
we've been running netflow for a few weeks now. we dont' have all the data collection working yet and havent' done any real analysis yet but in case anyone is interested in a single viewpoint from our backbone, here's a snapshot of the netflow cache on our core router in san jose: core1.sjc1#sh ip ca f IP packet size distribution (219413380 total packets): 1-32 64 96 128 160 192 224 256 288 320 352 384 416 448 480 .000 .388 .040 .014 .017 .014 .023 .013 .030 .026 .014 .010 .004 .004 .004 512 544 576 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 4608 .044 .003 .143 .000 .102 .097 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 IP Flow Switching Cache, 22757 active, 42779 inactive, 9734878 added 0 flows exported, 0 not exported, 0 export msgs sent 5 cur max hash, 13 worst max hash, 20773 valid buckets 0 flow alloc failures statistics cleared 36123 seconds ago Protocol Total Flows Packets Bytes Packets Active(Sec) Idle(Sec) -------- Flows /Sec /Flow /Pkt /Sec /Flow /Flow TCP-Telnet 15886 0.4 159 78 70.1 97.7 44.3 TCP-FTP 175819 4.8 6 72 31.0 6.1 45.9 TCP-FTPD 34862 0.9 280 591 270.4 82.3 44.7 TCP-WWW 5135690 142.1 20 391 2848.3 12.3 45.9 TCP-SMTP 179682 4.9 18 178 94.0 7.1 45.8 TCP-X 838 0.0 157 127 3.6 86.3 45.4 TCP-BGP 4298 0.1 90 113 10.7 322.8 39.4 TCP-Frag 679 0.0 19 733 0.3 22.0 45.2 TCP-other 399609 11.0 181 411 2008.3 65.7 44.9 UDP-DNS 2411976 66.7 5 132 339.2 14.9 45.5 UDP-NTP 164740 4.5 2 76 9.4 1.2 45.9 UDP-TFTP 2 0.0 2 69 0.0 0.0 59.8 UDP-Frag 42 0.0 2747 173 3.1 436.4 35.7 UDP-other 759665 21.0 22 227 466.6 7.5 45.5 ICMP 429570 11.8 7 88 93.3 19.8 44.7 IGMP 85 0.0 1707 102 4.0 1670.4 6.2 IPINIP 370 0.0 13 114 0.1 55.0 45.1 GRE 119 0.0 245 139 0.8 1810.6 4.0 IP-other 1490 0.0 31 123 1.2 64.0 43.9 Total: 9715422 268.9 23 365 6256.0 15.3 45.7 web flows obviously beat the pants off of most everything else (big surprise). it seems odd to me that idle seconds/flow are pretty much equal regardless of the protocol. bytes/packet is under 500 (average) for just about all protocols. lots of tiny packets floating around. -brett