[107847] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: confusing packet data
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue Sep 16 00:44:02 2008
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:43:44 +0300 (IDT)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
To: Jim Popovitch <yahoo@jimpop.com>
In-Reply-To: <7ff145960809151834x66d18989q96015e3c3cfa9deb@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Jim Popovitch wrote:
Are you running Skype? Have you become a supernode? There is now a
registry switch in 3.0 that allows you to disable supernode functionality.
-Hank
> This is something has been bugging me lately.... Etherape is a Linux
> tool that graphs packets arriving at your host, and shows paths of
> connectivity. I captured the graphs, at the URL below, from my Linux
> laptop connected to a Linksys wifi router that is hooked to a Comcast
> cable modem. Why is it that I can see packet data from IPs all over
> the place?
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/jimpop/Public#
>
> Any insight is much appreciated.
>
> -Jim P.
>
