In message <20030610061010.Y36963@shell.cyberus.ca>,Jamal Hadi writes: >is we actually test on real environments or maybe even collect real >world traffic patterns and run them in the lab. >Typically, real world is less intense than the lab. Ex: noone sends >100Mbps at 64 byte packet size. Typical packet is around 500 bytes >average. If linux can handle that forwarding capacity, it should easily i was curious at one point and collected a some packet size stats on our border router. while the average packet size is close to 500, the bulk (by count) of the traffic seems to be in the 64-95 byte range. (the length here is the link level size as given by tcpdump -e) # 27100000 packets average length = 747 0-31 5271 32-63 0 64-95 12143442 96-127 934314 128-159 202984 160-191 98772 192-223 49279 224-255 37826 256-287 28276 288-319 41675 320-351 42359 352-383 93709 384-415 24557 416-447 73969 448-479 25100 480-511 23210 512-543 86515 544-575 77779 576-607 146066 608-639 23967 640-671 23005 672-703 87471 704-735 13154 736-767 8818 768-799 20850 800-831 7678 832-863 7379 864-895 7920 896-927 5789 928-959 48122 960-991 35512 992-1023 26081 1024-1055 63541 1056-1087 23673 1088-1119 8397 1120-1151 5780 1152-1183 5133 1184-1215 8820 1216-1247 40251 1248-1279 6295 1280-1311 11420 1312-1343 31610 1344-1375 21802 1376-1407 22442 1408-1439 4932071 1440-1471 594385 1472-1503 439460 1504-1535 6434071 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
