[c-nsp] doubt on Mpps

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, jack daniels wrote:

> But if customer asks me he has 10G traffic in and 10G traffic out .
>
> Now whie planning for card and device whats practical use of MPPS.

Worst-case, take in+out bytes/s and divide by something like 64 to get a 
ddos scenario performance figure.

For only handling "normal" traffic, I'd say use an average packet size 
figure of about 300, that usually handles most normal Internet usage 
patterns.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se