IPv6 traffic percentages?
Randy Bush
randy at psg.com
Thu Jan 21 00:38:13 UTC 2016
>>> We could assert that the TTL is an indication of distance traveled.
>>
>> you might hypothesize it. but the wide variance in per-hop rtt would
>> seem to belie that.
>>
>>> Maybe one should record the TTL and Address Family of all packets
>>> received from the internet ('inbound') at the next NANOG or IETF?
>>
>> we have large bodies of traceroute and ping results in various stores,
>> mlab, atlas, mawi, ... it is the analysis to test your original
>> hypothesis which baffles me.
>
> I'm not sure if milions traceroutes to all kinds of places are a good
> dataset to begin with.
all depends on what the actual means by which you intend to test your
hypothesis, which you have yet to reveal.
all i have heard so far is ttl, which we know is no measure of distance.
randy
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