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

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

Kristian, 

> 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.

In my home, it is 99% web applications - predominant being OTT video consumption (besides SSL VPN for work).  Wrt p2p, we aggressively use p2p telephony (e.g. vonage, skype, facetime).

> So the question is to what degree do you think is your sample
> representative of a general user in any region?

It is quite subjective to answer, but I think that it represents a reasonable chunk of the home internet usage around the world.

Cheers,
Rajiv


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poscic, Kristian (Kristian) [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 9:33 AM
> To: Rajiv Asati (rajiva); [e-mail]; Softwires-wg list
> ([e-mail]); [e-mail]
> Cc: Erik Kline ([e-mail])
> Subject: RE: Home NAPT44 - How many ports?
> 
> 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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