Avg. Packet Size - Again?

Wed Jul 16 20:24:03 UTC 2008

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Sean Hafeez <sah.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> Most of the data and studies I have found on this topic are a bit out of
> date.

Here is the output from one of our "high volume" webservices router.

IP packet size distribution (58785M total packets):
   1-32   64   96  128  160  192  224  256  288  320  352  384  416  448  480
   .000 .007 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000

    512  544  576 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 4608
   .000 .000 .003 .001 .986 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000

And here from a core router

IP packet size distribution (73734M total packets):
   1-32   64   96  128  160  192  224  256  288  320  352  384  416  448  480
   .015 .563 .124 .031 .019 .016 .010 .006 .004 .004 .003 .005 .003 .003 .003

    512  544  576 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 4608
   .002 .003 .004 .017 .155 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000