On Sunday 05 February 2006 00:44, Randall R Schulz wrote:
That doesn't make any sense. Why would traffic get routed through a leaf node in the network?
Hi Randall,
Why? They're probably taking bandwidth wherever they can find it to distribute
the traffic as smoothly as possible. VOIP doesn't deal well with congestion.
And "leaf" as in "final destination" and "source" aren't that relevant. It may
or may not be voice traffic... I haven't dug that deeply into it... but I
have literally watched for hours in fascination as connections make, wait,
talk and break between my box and boxes all over the planet... a *lot* of
telco servers... one and two or even three at a time, in a pattern that I
think is best described as "polling". It could be looking for "Skype Me"
flagged subscribers... could be distributing routing data or traffic quality
assurance data... who knows? But to say it "makes no sense" is not true,
since I've already verified that /that/ is exactly what it does when you're
logged in but not engaged in a call. It never stops.
For the record, I used sysinternals' tcpview and process explorer to study
this as yet unexplained network activity with Skype running under XP