IRC Net Bandwidth (was IRC and Security)
Joel Jones
jjones at cs.uiuc.edu
Sat Mar 16 02:51:33 AEST 1991
pmartin at uceng.UC.EDU (Paul Martin) writes:
>3) IRC uses a great deal of bandwitdh.
> One of the replies I got back mentioned the as much as 3% of the
> total NSFNET backbone was used by IRC packets last month.
Here are some figures retrieved from merit.edu, thanks to Scott Cattanac:
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.
Joel Jones
jjones at uiuc.edu
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