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>  Statistical breakdowns contain two facilities that break
  down traffic counts by either packet size or TCP/UDP port.</P
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>  The packet size breakdown facility used to be incorporated
  into the detailed interface statistics. It has since been moved
  to its own facility. It is entered
  by selecting <I
CLASS="EMPHASIS"
>Statistical Breakdowns/By packet size</I
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>  The packet size breakdown takes the interface's Maximum Transmission
  Unit (MTU) size and divides it into 20 brackets, each bracket
  containing a range of sizes. As a packet is captured, its size
  is determined and the appropriate bracket is incremented.</P
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>  This facility provides an idea as to the packet sizes passing over
  your network, and can aid in network (re)design decisions.</P
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>Figure 1. The packet size statistical breakdown</B
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>  If logging is enabled, copies of the statistics are written at regular
  intervals to a log file. The default log file name
  is
  <TT
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>packet_size-<TT
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><I
>iface</I
></TT
>.log</TT
> where
  <TT
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>iface</I
></TT
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  is the selected interface for this session (for example,
  <TT
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>packet_size-eth0.log</TT
>).</P
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>IPTraf's filters do not affect this facility.</P
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>  The packet size breakdown can also be invoked straight
  from the command line by specifying the <TT
CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT"
>-z</TT
> iface
  parameter. The interface parameter is required. For example,
  this command runs the facility on interface <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>eth0</TT
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