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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [NANOG] Larger packets to save power, was: Re: would ip6 help us safeing energy ?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:[email protected]] > think of is DoS attacks. But that can be solved by only allowing end- > users to send an average packet size of 500 (or 250, or whatever) > bytes. So if you have a 10 Mbps connection you don't get to > send 14000 > 64-byte packets per second, but a maximum of 2500 packets per > second. > So with 64-byte packets you only get to use 1.25 Mbps. You have just cut out the VoIP industry, TCP setup, IM or most types of real-time services on the Internet. > PS. Am I the only one who is annoyed by the reduction in usable > subject space by the superfluous [NANOG]? > Yes you are the only one. ;) _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog
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