Re: Traffic to 5/8 and 37/8 - stats on RIPE Labs

["\"Oleg A. Arkhangelsky\"" <sysoleg () yandex ru>]

Hello,

> http://labs.ripe.net/Members/mkarir/first-impressions-of-pollution-in-two-ripe-ncc-darknets

Quote from the link:

> Note that in the 37/8, most traffic comes from TTLs around 100. These are Linux hosts.
> The smaller humps are at ~32 (Windows) and ~250 (Solaris).

I don't agree. TTL around 100 is most probably Windows hosts with initial TTL of 128.
Everything below 64 can be Linux or FreeBSD. ~250 can be Solaris host but Cisco
IOS also set initial TTL to 255.

-- 
wbr, Oleg.