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Packet Size of Internet Traffic

gauravprakash
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Hi,

Can anybody share some stats on the Packet size of Internet traffic. I want something like....

64 30%

1500 20%

Any link to such survey will be helpfull..

Regards,

gaurav

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evsrajatgupta
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Level 1

The packet could be from 20 to 65535 bytes. And a Frame size is 46 to 1532 bytes in size.

The MTU size define the maxim size of a frame. In case of MPLS MTU can be config as 1512.

For further detail you the below link.

http://mike.passwall.com/networking/ippacket.html

HI Gaurav, [Pls Rate if HELPS]

I am not sure about the statistics. In most cases the Internet Service Providers support Jumbo Frames on their Network to carry heavy Packet.

Neverthless, make sure to verify the IP MTU if defined anywhere else.

Pls Rate if HELPS

Best Regards,

Guru Prasad R

paolo bevilacqua
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Check http://advanced.comms.agilent.com/n2x/docs/insight/2001-08/TestingTips/1MxdPktSzThroughput.pdf

one among the many studies on the subject.

Hope this helps, please rate post if it does!

Paolo, the link for the document you have sent is from 2001, which is before vast VPN and DSL penetration.

Pavel Bykov
Level 5
Level 5

Pre-2000 the packet size distribution was 64,576,1500. Then it went to bimodal to 64,1500. Now with widespread of DSL (PPPoE) and VPNs, it's trimodal gain: 64,1300,1500.

The source are:

http://www.postel.org/pipermail/end2end-interest/2005-October/005390.html

But I couldn't find a more recent ones.

Thank you for finding this interesting message. 

Of course now in 2020 and even in 2008 it was only of historical interest

 

Helps to read from the original message at postel.org--

 

First, current packet sizes seem mostly
bimodal at 40B and 1500B (at 40% and 20% of packets, respectively). This
observation represents a change from common wisdom such as the pre-2000
data that reports tri-modal packet sizes around 40, 576, and 1500B.

Second, in some cases we observe a strong mode around 1300B. This
represents a new phenomenon.

 

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