Average and median IP packet size over the Internet?
Al Reuben
alex at nac.net
Mon Apr 27 21:31:41 UTC 1998
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 at 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 at att.com
> TEL:(412)642-7288
>
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