This week was about the network layer which meant hopping around the Internet watching where things go one hop at a time. Videos and reading showed what goes on inside routers as packets move from one node to the next to accomplish a goal. Hands on work with traceroute was interesting because it showed information about each node in the network as information went from here to India as an example.
Something I thought was interesting was how badly the first traceroute I ran to india failed. Then changing to doing a different type of traceroute caused things to appear nicely. It seems like the default should be the one that works more? That's OK though it worked out in the end and I got to see what kind of delays were between here and India. Everything was going nicely until after my packets left Los Angeles. I suppose that is why I don't see many people from India in the games I play! They would get allocated to servers closer to their homes of course.
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