[Fwd: Re: ISP's Natting customer pools]
Fascinating stuff - thanks for posting it. I find it most interesting that over 60% of DSL users systems know about and use more than 20 protocols. What is the sample size? Just approximate - 100s, 1000s, 10s of 000s ? I can understand if you didn't want to say, but it would help with rough deviation / error % Thanks, Gerard Perry Lorier wrote:
Well, I ran an analysis of DSL customers[1] over the space of 24 hours [4] to see how many different protocols people were using. For each IP I kept track of the number of unique "server ports"[2] were used.[3]
Gerard Creamer wrote:
Fascinating stuff - thanks for posting it. I find it most interesting that over 60% of DSL users systems know about and use more than 20 protocols.
Well, by the time it gets to about 20 ports its probably people starting to use p2pish protocols with dynamic port assignments. But yeah, it suggests that people 60% of people do have a reasonable grasp on how the Internet really works.
What is the sample size? Just approximate - 100s, 1000s, 10s of 000s ? I can understand if you didn't want to say, but it would help with rough deviation / error %
Around 10,000ish. So the sample size shouldn't be too noisy. :)
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