RE: IPv6 Performance (was Re: IPv4 Pricing)

[Vasilenko Eduard via NANOG]

Hi William, Thanks! It is a good point.
Do you know by chance what would be the packet size average by direction: 1) to 
subscriber; 2) from subscriber?
Eduard
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Herrin <b...@herrin.us>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2025 20:46
> To: Vasilenko Eduard <vasilenko.edu...@huawei.com>
> Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@lists.nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: IPv6 Performance (was Re: IPv4 Pricing)
> 
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM Vasilenko Eduard
> <vasilenko.edu...@huawei.com> wrote:
> > Wrong math. The internet average packet size is very close to 750B - it has
> been published many times in many places.
> 
> Of course it is. 1500 byte packet one way, 46 byte TCP ack packet back the
> other. Averages to, guess what?
> 
> After the synack, the ack packet _length_ doesn't contribute to the latency
> and doesn't contribute to the throughput at all.
> 
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
> 
> 
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