Re: IPv6 Performance (was Re: IPv4 Pricing)

[William Herrin via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM Vasilenko Eduard
<vasilenko.eduard () huawei com> wrote:
> Wrong math. The internet average packet size is very close to 750B - it has been published many times in many places.

Of course it is. 1500 byte packet one way, 46 byte TCP ack packet back
the other. Averages to, guess what?

After the synack, the ack packet _length_ doesn't contribute to the
latency and doesn't contribute to the throughput at all.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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