Re: [BEHAVE] Home NAPT44 - How many ports?

["Rajiv Asati (rajiva)" <[e-mail]>]

Good point. I agree. 
And hopefully, most of the connected home would be on IPv6 (and not on IPv4) in the next few yrs . :)

Cheers,
Rajiv


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reinaldo Penno (repenno)
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 3:25 PM
> To: Rajiv Asati (rajiva); Poscic, Kristian (Kristian); [e-mail]; Softwires-
> wg list ([e-mail]); [e-mail]
> Cc: Erik Kline ([e-mail])
> Subject: Re: [BEHAVE] Home NAPT44 - How many ports?
> 
> that's right.
> 
> Depending on how much stuff you have running there might be long term
> TCP connections to mail servers, IM servers, Etc.
> 
> With the 'connected home' I'm assuming this will go up.
> 
> 
> On 6/5/13 3:51 PM, "Rajiv Asati (rajiva)" <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> >Reinaldo,
> >
> >I agree with you. Until I enabled DNS proxy on my router, I noticed
> >that UDP NAT exceeded TCP NAT entries in few occasions. Since DNS proxy
> >got enabled, UDP NAT entries became negligible.
> >
> >One interesting observation is how the lowest number of TCP NAT entries
> >stayed within the range throughout the night time (when the devices
> >were not manually used) based on how many apps (on the smartphones)
> >were left running. For ex, ~200 TCP ports on April 13-14, or ~30 TCP ports
> June 4.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Rajiv
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Reinaldo Penno (repenno)
> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 11:44 AM
> >> To: Poscic, Kristian (Kristian); Rajiv Asati (rajiva);
> >>[e-mail];
> >>Softwires-
> >> wg list ([e-mail]); [e-mail]
> >> Cc: Erik Kline ([e-mail])
> >> Subject: Re: [BEHAVE] Home NAPT44 - How many ports?
> >>
> >> Yes, there are regional differences. But even then, in general, 90%
> >>of the  active users can be covered by 1000 ports. I have been
> >>collecting data for  many years, and actually the number of TCP ports
> >>consumed have been  going Down due to a number of factors.
> >>
> >> On the other hand, as Rajiv captured,the number of UDP sessions can
> >>be  much larger than the number of TCP. Because the way dynamic
> >>webpages  are constructed today, there are sometimes literally 100s of
> >>DNS requests to  download a single page.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 6/5/13 10:32 AM, "Poscic, Kristian (Kristian)"
> >> <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Thanks. Can you tell us in general what applications did you use for
> >>this?
> >> >This heavily depends on the application type in use...p2p apps, etc.
> >> >Since some apps spawn a large number of TCP ports for example.
> >> >
> >> >So the question is to what degree do you think is your sample
> >> >representative of a general user in any region?
> >> >
> >> >For example does it cover 30% of users for an ISP in NA while it
> >> >covers 80% of users for another ISP in APAC for example?
> >> >
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On
> >> >Behalf Of Rajiv Asati (rajiva)
> >> >Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 6:14 AM
> >> >To: [e-mail]; Softwires-wg list ([e-mail]);
> >> >[e-mail]
> >> >Cc: Erik Kline ([e-mail])
> >> >Subject: [BEHAVE] Home NAPT44 - How many ports?
> >> >
> >> >Some of you may recall our discussion (during the last IETF) around
> >> >"how many TCP/UDP ports are enough with NAPT44" per home, as ISPs
> >> move
> >> >into
> >> >A+P paradigm. ~500, ~1000, ~3000???
> >> >
> >> >Well, I started monitoring my home router and plotting the NAPT44
> >> >port utilization on a minute-by-minute basis. You may find it here -
> >> >http://www.employees.org/~rajiva
> >> >
> >> >In short, port range of 500 seems ok, though 1000 would be more than
> >> >enough for my home. Suffice to say, this is just a sample
> >> >representation, since the port utilization would vary home to home,
> >> >based on number of active devices, type of applications, the degree
> >> >of simultaneous device or application usage etc.
> >> >
> >> >If any of you are doing similar monitoring, then please share.
> >> >
> >> >Cheers,
> >> >Rajiv
> >> >
> >> >PS: Thanks to Erik Kline, who explained (with sufficient details)
> >> >how to use google charting for my data. And thanks to Xun Wang &
> >> >Shaoshuai Dai for helping me out significantly.
> >> >
> >> >PS: My home has 3-4 active devices.
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