no publised, but from my real-world router: nyc6>sho ip cach flo IP packet size distribution (448264806 total packets): 1-32 64 96 128 160 192 224 256 288 320 352 384 416 448 480 .000 .577 .079 .040 .025 .012 .008 .007 .007 .010 .006 .006 .004 .004 .003 512 544 576 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 4608 .002 .004 .075 .015 .106 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 57.7% are 64 bytes. Sampling of over 448 million (1/2 billion) packets. 1 day, 3 hour sample. Interesting/neat spike at 576 and 1536. IP Flow Switching Cache, 4456448 bytes 10093 active, 55443 inactive, 20096291 added 99408180 ager polls, 0 flow alloc failures Exporting flows to 207.99.5.189 (2055) Exporting using source interface Loopback0 Version 5 flow records, origin-as 20093196 flows exported in 716895 udp datagrams, 0 failed last clearing of statistics 1d03h On Mon, 27 Apr 1998 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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