If one generates a movie of traffic flowing across abilene circuits, you can see a marked increase in traffic today. I wonder how much of that increase can be attributed to the scanning activity? http://hydra.uits.iu.edu/~abilene/traffic/movie.cgi?archive=%2Fhome%2Fabilene%2Ftraffic%2Fhistory&title=Abilene%20Network%20Traffic&link=abilene.html Regards, Ian