IRC Net Bandwidth (was IRC and Security)

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <1991Mar15.165133.18601 at m.cs.uiuc.edu> jjones at uiuc.edu writes:
> Service			  port	  # packets   % month  #bytes       %bytes
> J91irc                    6667     50541247   1.316    3942709477   0.640
> F91irc                    6667    107960902   2.776    8849122531   1.397
> So Paul Martins figures are pretty much correct in terms of # of packets.
> However, if we look at bandwidth, irc only accounted for 1.397% of total bytes
> sent on the NSFnet.

But it's the packets that cost. A 2-byte packet costs almost as much as
a 500-byte packet. Apparently IRC sends about twice as few bytes per
packet as the average service; this certainly doesn't make it cheaper.

---Dan