Date: Thu, 7 Nov 96 09:27:01 -0600 From: Ben Black <black@gage.com> To: Josh Mehlman <josh@oystersoft.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, ecsd@synergy.transbay.net Subject: Re: Routing tables Message-ID: <9611071527.AA02396@squid.gage.com> In-Reply-To: <32811FA0.41C67EA6@oystersoft.com> References: <32811FA0.41C67EA6@oystersoft.com>
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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
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