[c-nsp] easy question, PPS v Megabits

Bruce Pinsky bep at whack.org
Tue Aug 22 18:17:26 EDT 2006


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jim bartus wrote:
> Since others have covered the huge variance, here's my anecdotal evidence.
> 
> Today while our WAN pipe hit 40mbps-in/200mbps-out it was doing
> 24kpps-in/32kpps-out.  This is for overwhelmingly HTTP traffic, with some
> real streams and ftp stuff too.  So short of being some sort of large file
> mirror service, this is roughly a best case scenario.
> 

What kind of pipe is that?  Looks something that is supporting some pretty
large MTUs given the average outbound packetsize would be >6K (based on
your numbers above).

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bep

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