At 03:24 PM 12/10/00 +0100, Simon Leinen wrote:
> The average of the above is generally in the 200-250 bytes per packet
> neighborhood, largely due to the predominance of 552 byte segments. If
> Path MTU were more widely used - something one would expect to happen
> as systems are upgraded over time - this likely would grow to upper
> hundreds.
PMTUD is quite widely used these days. Whenever I look at the traffic
size distributions on our transatlantic links (on which traffic is
dominated by TCP in exactly the way you described), I see around 30%
packets in the "1024-1536" bin, anyway always *much* more than in the
512-576 bins. The average packet size I see right now is near 500
bytes.
sounds like my prediction of mean packet growth is in fact occuring in your
part of the world. I'm happy to hear it.