At 01:33 PM 11/15/04 -0500, Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:
Umm.. what *exactly* is upstream of that interface? I strongly suspect
that it's *heavily* influenced by *local* preferences/configuration.
:^)
Care to speculate on the existence of any measurement point in the internet
that is not heavily influenced by characteristics logically or physically
local to it? Making statements about traffic in the network is a little
like asking the temperature of the ocean; the answer depends a lot on who
is asking and where the answering person is standing. That's why I fairly
carefully referred to measurement points that *I* can read.
But frankly, every sample I have seen in the past decade placed SMTP in the
"noise" category, a single digit percentage or less. Estimates I have heard
from ISPs and seen on measurement sites available to me have consistently
placed HTTP/HTTPS at better than 2/3 of total traffic in the late 1990's,
and in the past few years have either estimated HTTP/HTTPS as neck-and-neck
with file sharing traffic or have put file sharing well ahead. I recently
understood from a Scandinavian ISP that DirectConnect is ~85% of their
average workload.
Perhaps you could reply privately with your data; it would interest me.
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