Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 20:59:42 -0800 From: ecsd <ecsd@transbay.net> To: Ben Black <black@gage.com> Cc: Josh Mehlman <josh@oystersoft.com>, questions@freebsd.org, ecsd@synergy.transbay.net Subject: Re: Routing tables Message-ID: <3282BE3E.5C68@transbay.net> References: <32811FA0.41C67EA6@oystersoft.com> <9611071527.AA02396@squid.gage.com>
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Ben Black wrote: > > you can't route by size because freebsd (and 99.9% of all other > systems) pays no attention to a stream of packets. each packet is > examined on it's own. even those that do pay attention (some new cisco > software called netflow, for instance) can't determine a priori that a > connection will transfer a lot of data. > > do you understand that the maximum packet size is typically 1500 > bytes, so your large transfer looks like all the others when it is > chopped up? > > b3n it's not a question of flow size, it's a question of the availability or not of the faster link.
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