IP assignment for virtual webhosting

At Thu, 11 May 2000, owner-lir-wg at ripe.net wrote:

>Can you expand on this? Is the difference between counted and real
>traffic random, or a roughly equal (or proportional) overhead for
>each server? Is the difference so significant that one cannot take
>it into account as part of the charging structure?

I did some research on this topic a while ago. The traffic Apache measures
(based on filesize) can be 10 to 50% smaller than the traffic the router
measures. Ofcourse this depends on the filesize, packetsize etc.

Mark Lastdrager
Pine Internet

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