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.
