BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ?

Patrick W Gilmore patrick at ianai.net
Fri Nov 5 05:57:17 UTC 2004


On Nov 5, 2004, at 12:45 AM, Petri Helenius wrote:

> Netflow is based on port numbers and many run bittorrent on fairly 
> random ports. Look at the 30%+ unidentified on the report.

Yes, but HTTP tends to run on the same port, and it only made 15.76% of 
bits and 18.53% of the packets.

I know P2P is "big", but is HTTP really only 16% of the bits on the 
'Net?

Question is: Is this data representative of "Internet 1"?  I'm thinking 
not, since "Iperf" was more bits than HTTP.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick




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