Re:How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet
by labawi on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @02:48PM
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Yes. But only the "AMS-IX traffic by packet size range" graph is wildly inaccurate. Ethernet frame overhead is per-packet and presumably right.
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Re:How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet
by alexforencich on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @03:00PM
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Ah yeah, that's probably true. According to some back of the envelope math, it seems like the distribution should be more like 5%, 1%, 1%, 3%, 50%, 39%, ignoring the first and last size bins.