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Re:What's the max speed on Ethernet? by honeypoopoo on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @12:34AM (#6513075)
Packets are not 500 bytes in size, not even as an average (mean) or median. Many studies of frame length distribution show 64 bytes (for the Ethernet frame) as the most common length, probably because of TCP ACKs. Next most popular is 1518 bytes, the Ethernet maximum, probably because of bulk transfers over TCP.

Also, jumbo frames are technically not Ethernet. The IEEE revised the 802.3 spec to increase the maximum envelope from 1518 bytes up to around 2000 bytes to accommodate VLAN stacking and other encapsulating schemes. But jumbos -- usually 9000 or 9216 bytes -- aren't legally Ethernet.

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Re:What's the max speed on Ethernet? by mino on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @01:06AM (#6513165)
Correct: the packet size distribution over any aggregated Internet link is typically bi-modal: a peak at around 64 bytes (acks) and one at around 1500 bytes (transfers that fill the MTU).

The article seems to me very approximate.

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Re:What's the max speed on Ethernet? by akira2501 on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @01:00AM (#6513144)
Specifically, it was extended to 1522 bytes in 802.3ac.
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