[165017] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Thu Aug 15 17:19:05 2013
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 16:18:31 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <D27x1m00M1Una3W0127yNB>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 8/15/2013 9:05 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>
> On Aug 14, 2013, at 3:27 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Once you define what you mean by "how bit is the Internet", I'll be
>> happy to spout off about how big it is. :)
>
> Arbitrary definition time: A Internet host is one that can send and
> receive packets directly with at least one far end device addressed
> out of RIR managed IPv4 or IPv6 space.
>
> That means behind a NAT counts, behind a firewall counts, but a true
> private network (two PC's into an L2 switch with no other
> connections) does not, even if they use IP protocols. Note that
> devices behind a pure L3 proxy do not count, but the L3 proxy itself
> counts.
Isn't that like excluding city streets from the "How many miles of
roads?" question--likely to be the bigger fraction of the
whole-as-a-traveler-sees-it?
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