[e2e] packet size distribution of Internet traffic

Jianping Pan jpan at fla.fujitsu.com
Tue Apr 15 12:01:01 PDT 2003


On Tuesday 15 April 2003 08:12 am, Nicolas Christin wrote:
>
> Jing,
>
> The "typical" packet distribution is tri-modal, with the modes at or
> around 40 bytes, 560 bytes, and 1500 bytes. A useful reference is "The

These are the ``typical'' length for IP packets transporting
TCP ACK, TCP data with the default MSS, and TCP data with the
negotiated Ethernet MSS (and most Internet links support it now). 

Any length models for non-TCP traffic? Thanks,

Jianping




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