On Apr 2, 2012, at 6:33 PM, Elwyn Davies wrote: > On 02/04/12 18:53, Scott Brim wrote: >> On 04/02/12 03:12, Riccardo Bernardini allegedly wrote: >>> In the Introduction I read >>> >>> "Mind you, the Null Packet is not created by compressing a packet until it >>> disappears into nothingness." >>> >>> That is nice, since I believe that doing so would create a "black hole >>> packet" that would attract and collapse the whole Internet. On the >>> plus side, we would not need to worry anymore about IPv6... >> There's your RFC for next April. > Of course some theorists believe that all communication links carry a > continual traffic of Null Packets resulting from the scalar TOS Field that > pervades the Internet and occasionally quantum fluctuations result in pairs > of virtual packets (such as ICMP Echo and Echo Responses) being created and > traveling off in opposite directions. Normally most of these virtual packets > recombine without being observed, but occasionally they result in unexpected > congestion when an encounter with a router collapses the superposition of > protocol states in which these virtual packets normally exist. >
You're talking about the hard to detect Biggs Bozon packets as first theorized by Billy Biggs back in '99 and for which he specified a distributed detection experiment hidden inside NAT traversal procedures? -- Dean
