[187142] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 traffic percentages?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Job Snijders)
Wed Jan 20 18:36:02 2016
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:35:54 +0100
From: Job Snijders <job@instituut.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 08:23:09AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > 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.
I'm not sure if milions traceroutes to all kinds of places are a good
dataset to begin with.
I'd try to look at natural / organic traffic, such as can be caught at a
dual-stacked CPE or webserver. The majority of the traffic my employer
carriers is not traceroute packets but other stuff.
When will you have the paper ready for publishing? :)
