Following on from recent comments about ARP and other chatty protocols I thought some people might find this quite interesting...



Now my comment the other day was "I don't care!  Just whack a bigger link in..." and I still stand by the comment to a point.

I think the balance has to be drawn between spending time figuring out what's chatting (and the cost of that time) and just whacking a bigger pipe in.

I contend that I've spent far to much time in the past trying to squeze the last 1 and 0 out of the box to the point of being just foolish.

However the data I've collected just in the past 24 hours tends to suggest I should put some effort into better understanding my own network. 

The traffic hitting the lan interface is almost twice the traffic going out on the wan side.

Why?  Not quite sure...  some of it will be will be the WinBox software just collecting stats... but 600mb in 24 hours?

Anyway, thought I'd just throw this out there for ppl who might be interested in the subject.

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