MTU of the Internet?

Fri Feb 6 04:38:41 UTC 1998

At 05:45 PM 2/5/98 , Dorian R. Kim wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 04:47:36PM +0100, Per Gregers Bilse wrote:
>> FWIW, our router at MAE-East says:
>> 
>> IP packet size distribution (38569M total packets):
>>    1-32   64   96  128  160  192  224  256  288  320  352  384  416  448
 480
>>    .000 .400 .046 .016 .018 .012 .008 .009 .011 .012 .006 .007 .005 .004
.004
>> 
>>     512  544  576 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 4608
>>    .010 .006 .120 .000 .099 .197 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000
>> 
>> It's been up for some weeks and the sample size is, well, OK.  As
>> expected, large number at the low end, but I'm not sure what to think
>
>Bug. I believe counters a shifted by one slot from 1024. As you'll note
>that that slot is empty.
>
>-dorian
> 

I'll bet that is true, since histograms for the last couple of years have
shown clusters at 40, 512, 576, 1024 and a tiny bit of 1500. Looks like it
hasn't changed much since.

--Kent