Traffic to 5/8 and 37/8 - stats on RIPE Labs

Tue Feb 22 02:29:51 UTC 2011

Hi Oleg,

You are correct.  We got our default values mixed up.  We will correct this on the blog post.

Thanks.
-manish

> Hello,
> 
> > http://labs.ripe.net/Members/mkarir/first-impressions-of-pollution-in-two-ripe-ncc-darknets
> 
> Quote from the link:
> 
> > Note that in the 37/8, most traffic comes from TTLs around 100. These are Linux hosts.
> > The smaller humps are at ~32 (Windows) and ~250 (Solaris).
> 
> I don't agree. TTL around 100 is most probably Windows hosts with initial TTL of 128.
> Everything below 64 can be Linux or FreeBSD. ~250 can be Solaris host but Cisco
> IOS also set initial TTL to 255.
> 
> -- 
> wbr, Oleg.
> 