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    Whats your average packet size on the firewall??

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      Cool_Corona last edited by

      Calculated its around 1301 bytes here....

      Seems pretty big so curious to see what people see on average.

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

        What are you calculating that with? All interfaces?

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          Cool_Corona @stephenw10 last edited by

          @stephenw10 Packets in and Bytes in.

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            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

            In/out packets
                55054177/41407511 (45.54 GiB/5.03 GiB)
            

            So 888B In and 139B Out.

            Maybe not typical. That's the WAN interface so includes gateway monitoring pings etc.

            Steve

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              JKnott @Cool_Corona last edited by

              @cool_corona

              Well, that depends entirely on what you're doing. For example, if you're downloading a lot of large files, then that number would be close to the MTU. On the other hand, lots of ssh or telnet sessions or VoIP would have a lot of small packets.

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              • stephenw10
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                Indeed. Those numbers were from an internal firewall. My edge box sees a lot more video streaming for example:

                In/out packets
                    115264264/64672898 (123.68 GiB/15.50 GiB)
                

                1152 In 257 Out

                Steve

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                  Cool_Corona @stephenw10 last edited by

                  c06bcc50-0ef7-4dfd-a5b4-956b4cc1e644-billede.png @stephenw10

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                  • stephenw10
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                    I make that 1430B. I guess you have mostly full size TCP packets inbound.

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