[NANOG] Larger packets to save power, was: Re: would ip6 help us safeing energy ?

Mon May 5 19:56:38 UTC 2008

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch at muada.com] 
> think of is DoS attacks. But that can be solved by only allowing end- 
> users to send an average packet size of 500 (or 250, or whatever)  
> bytes. So if you have a 10 Mbps connection you don't get to 
> send 14000  
> 64-byte packets per second, but a maximum of 2500 packets per 
> second.  
> So with 64-byte packets you only get to use 1.25 Mbps.

You have just cut out the VoIP industry, TCP setup, IM or most types of
real-time services on the Internet.

> PS. Am I the only one who is annoyed by the reduction in usable  
> subject space by the superfluous [NANOG]?
> 

Yes you are the only one. ;)