Do you also happen to have a breakdown of what ports this raffic was going to/from? The reason I ask iss that this seems to lead to a conclusion that a lot of the data was for "interactive" services such as telnet and the like as opposed to batch transfer type of connections such as ftp, and sendmail. At 03:29 AM 6/19/96 -0400, Dorian Kim wrote:

On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Jerry Scharf wrote:

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the overhead for various framing methods. Hopefully taking empirical data from the internet and giving people code will reduce the discussions of what the "cell tax" for real traffic is. Don't like my traffic, collect your own. Fighting over conclusions will be left to others.

In a similar vein, something to think about:

IP packet size distribution (970780293 total packets): 1-32 64 96 128 160 192 224 256 288 320 352 384 416 448 480 .000 .497 .094 .013 .009 .006 .007 .010 .010 .014 .004 .005 .002 .002 .002 ^^^^ 512 544 576 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 4608 .004 .002 .189 .000 .069 .053 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000

Collected at a private interconnect between CICNet, OARnet and OSU. over a period of a week or so.

-dorian

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