RE: avg path AS path length

Amin Vahdat (vahdat@cs.washington.edu)
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:07:00 -0700

Sounds like we can market a new variant of the "seven degrees of kevin
bacon" game. :-)

Amin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neal Cardwell [mailto:cardwell@cs.washington.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 1998 1:01 PM
> To: syn@cs
> Subject: avg path AS path length
>
>
>
> a cool little graph i don't recall seeing before...
>
> http://www.caida.org/Learn/ASPL/
>
> it looks like everything is 4, 5, or 6 ASes away from everything else.
> perhaps that's because many times a packet travels through
> 1) your institution
> 2) your ISP
> 3) big nsp: sprint/mci/....
> 4) their ISP
> 5) them
> ?
>
> neal
>