net neutrality and peering wars continue

[neil at tonal.clara.co.uk (Neil Harris)]

On 22/06/13 13:08, Matthew Petach wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:29 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:39:56 +0200, Niels Bakker said:
>>
>>> You're mistaken if you think that CDNs have equal number of packets
>>> going in and out.
>> And even if the number of packets match, there's the whole "1500 bytes
>> of data, 64 bytes of ACK" thing to factor in...
>>
>
> That's easily solved by padding the ACK to 1500 bytes as well.
>
> Matt
>

Or indeed by the media player sending large amounts of traffic back to 
the CDN via auxiliary HTTP POST requests?

Neil