From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 7 22:37:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA11586 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 22:37:12 -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 WAA11533 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 22:37:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from synergy.transbay.net (synergy.transbay.net [207.105.6.2]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id UAA20076 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 20:52:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from machiavelli.transbay.net (machiavelli.transbay.net [207.105.6.13]) by synergy.transbay.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA26554; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 20:50:13 GMT Message-ID: <3282BE3E.5C68@transbay.net> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 20:59:42 -0800 From: ecsd Reply-To: ecsd@transbay.net Organization: TransBay.Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Black CC: Josh Mehlman , questions@freebsd.org, ecsd@synergy.transbay.net Subject: Re: Routing tables References: <32811FA0.41C67EA6@oystersoft.com> <9611071527.AA02396@squid.gage.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.