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Re: How big is the Internet?
From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:00:38 -0400 (EDT)
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From: "Leo Bicknell" <bicknell () ufp org>
I have a feeling that does not come close to matching the mental model most people have in their head of "Internet traffic". But maybe I'm confused.It matches my mental model. Your network is connected to the Internet, that's traffic between two hosts, it's Internet traffic. Let's take the same two machines, but I own one and you own one, and let's put them on the same network behind a NAT just like your home, but at a coffee shop. Rather than backups we're both running bit torrent and our two machines exchange data. That's Internet traffic, isn't it? Two unrelated people talking over the network? They just happen to be on the same LAN.
"Internet traffic is traffic which leaves and/or arrives at your machine in a session with some other machine which is on a network physically or administratively disjoint from the one your network is on." How's that? I think it solves both your and Patrick's requirements. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra () baylink com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
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- Re: How big is the Internet?, (continued)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Leo Bicknell (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jorge Amodio (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Leo Bicknell (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Warren Bailey (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Warren Bailey (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jay Ashworth (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jay Ashworth (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jay Ashworth (Aug 15)
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- Re: How big is the Internet? Larry Sheldon (Aug 14)
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