From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 7 14:43:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA22890 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 14:43:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA22862 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 14:43:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from brimstone.gage.com (brimstone.gage.com [205.217.2.10]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id HAA16782 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 07:27:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by brimstone.gage.com (8.8.2/8.7.3) id JAA13992; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 09:25:52 -0600 (CST) Received: from octopus.gage.com(158.60.57.50) by brimstone.gage.com via smap (V2.0beta) id xma013990; Thu, 7 Nov 96 09:25:33 -0600 Received: from squid.gage.com (squid [158.60.57.101]) by octopus.gage.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA12146; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 09:19:42 -0600 (CST) Received: from schemer by squid.gage.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA02396; Thu, 7 Nov 96 09:27:00 -0600 Message-Id: <9611071527.AA02396@squid.gage.com> Received: by schemer.gage.com (NX5.67g/NX3.0X) id AA01547; Thu, 7 Nov 96 09:27:03 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.0 v146.2) Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <32811FA0.41C67EA6@oystersoft.com> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.3) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.146.2) From: Ben Black Date: Thu, 7 Nov 96 09:27:01 -0600 To: Josh Mehlman Subject: Re: Routing tables Cc: questions@freebsd.org, ecsd@synergy.transbay.net References: <32811FA0.41C67EA6@oystersoft.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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