workload: mice vs elephants longer traces are essential two modes of Internet usage (interactive, downloads) boundary between modes is ~300 packets (0.5 MBytes) most flows on the left (by far), most packets on the right (by far) for a 24 hour (sd) flow table, 4.7% packets are in still-active flows 50% packets are in flows with > 8192 pkts; max. flow: 9M pkts. max. active flow: 5M packets. upshot: do not analyze flow sizes with less than 24 hours of data