RE: Average Ethernet packet length

2000-05-26 Thread Steve Dispensa
y 25, 2000 9:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Average Ethernet packet length >There are no good, current studies on LAN behavior that I've seen. >There have been a number of papers on WAN behavior. The usual result >of those is that ~40-50% of packets are about 40-44 byte

Re: Average Ethernet packet length

2000-05-25 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > There are no good, current studies on LAN behavior that I've seen. However, many LAN switches can provide this information to a management process. With high-speed networks, this may be the only way to get information on LAN behavior. For example, incoming packets on one interface

Re: Average Ethernet packet length

2000-05-25 Thread Stuart Cheshire
>There are no good, current studies on LAN behavior that I've seen. >There have been a number of papers on WAN behavior. The usual result >of those is that ~40-50% of packets are about 40-44 bytes, but most of >the bytes are carried by packets of ~500-576 or 1500 bytes. > > --St

Re: Average Ethernet packet length

2000-05-25 Thread Paul Ferguson
Also some good stats at www.caida.org - paul At 09:08 PM 05/25/2000 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > >> A recent thread suggested something interesting - an average Ethernet/IP > >> packet length of 500 bytes. Has there been any work done in the area of > >> finding average packet lengths, b

Re: Average Ethernet packet length

2000-05-25 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message , Timothy Behne writ es: > >> Hi, >> >> A recent thread suggested something interesting - an average Ethernet/IP >> packet length of 500 bytes. Has there been any work done in the area of >> finding average packet lengths, bandwidth usag

RE: Average Ethernet packet length

2000-05-25 Thread Robin.Uyeshiro
Title: RE: Average Ethernet packet length I saw an article a while back that showed spikes at 64 bytes (TCP handshake, increased with web growth), 590 bytes (576 byte min mtu), and 1518 bytes (Ethernet max).  This was a few years old.  I don't know if it listed an average.  I'll try

Average Ethernet packet length

2000-05-25 Thread Timothy Behne
> Hi, > > A recent thread suggested something interesting - an average Ethernet/IP > packet length of 500 bytes. Has there been any work done in the area of > finding average packet lengths, bandwidth usage, etc. of typical (read: > unknown) networks? Are there any "rules of thumb" values that