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Re: IPv6 traffic percentages?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Jan 20 18:23:14 2016

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From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Job Snijders <job@instituut.net>
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> 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.

randy

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