----- Original Message ----- > From: "Leo Bicknell" <[email protected]>
> > 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 [email protected] 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
