No, because there's no set schedule for these things. Some publishers / consoles get content/patches up in advance to allow user to pre-load. This can smooth out the bandwidth hits, but only if the users enable the pre-load feature. Many don't. Other publishers just enable the updates at once for everybody, and you see a big spike when they do. The time of day is also not always the same either. On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 10:09 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1@gvtc.com> wrote:
thanks Peter, et al. Is there some sort of website, traffic stats, gaming update schedule page for me to proactively see if/when this type of thing will occur? I mean, this is a significant uptick on all 3 of my internet uplinks... would be nice to know beforehand
-Aaron
On 7/23/2024 9:02 AM, Peter Potvin wrote:
Considering at least the top 4 IPs you've listed are CDN providers (Edgio and Fastly), this definitely sounds like game updates or something of the sort. Nothing unusual really for 3am on a weekday morning especially for an eyeball network.
Kind regards, Peter
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 9:57 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1@gvtc.com> wrote:
Thanks Jason, updates for what? I was hoping any other eyeball network operators may have been seeing "lots of internet" usage like me and may be able to share what they know. I'm always suspicious about the typical game update that tends to cause something like this. someone unicasted me a response that it might be related to F1 Manager 2024 for video game consoles released today
i grabbed my netflow data for the last few hours for any source ip that has sent more than 5 GB of data...
Top 100 Src IP Addr ordered by bytes: Date first seen Duration Proto Src IP Addr Flows(%) Packets(%) Bytes(%) pps bps bpp 2024-07-23 04:37:29.600 14860.800 any 93.184.215.240 557558( 0.6) 108.5 M( 9.2) 162.6 G(12.9) 7302 87.5 M 1497 2024-07-23 04:42:07.616 14577.664 any 72.21.81.240 361240( 0.4) 64.5 M( 5.5) 96.6 G( 7.7) 4426 53.0 M 1497 2024-07-23 06:52:08.192 6781.696 any 151.101.162.172 270298( 0.3) 36.9 M( 3.1) 55.0 G( 4.4) 5445 64.9 M 1489 2024-07-23 04:23:08.160 15722.240 any 151.101.150.172 1.0 M( 1.0) 31.2 M( 2.6) 46.4 G( 3.7) 1985 23.6 M 1486 2024-07-23 04:42:47.552 14542.592 any 146.75.106.172 238287( 0.2) 22.9 M( 1.9) 33.9 G( 2.7) 1575 18.7 M 1480 2024-07-23 03:40:11.776 18298.880 any 199.232.214.172 135793( 0.1) 19.1 M( 1.6) 28.4 G( 2.3) 1043 12.4 M 1486 2024-07-23 03:48:59.392 17769.728 any 199.232.210.172 135811( 0.1) 18.8 M( 1.6) 27.9 G( 2.2) 1057 12.6 M 1486 2024-07-23 04:22:05.184 15783.680 any 199.232.70.172 923350( 0.9) 18.5 M( 1.6) 27.5 G( 2.2) 1169 14.0 M 1491 2024-07-23 04:36:40.704 14909.696 any 146.75.42.172 138813( 0.1) 5.6 M( 0.5) 8.3 G( 0.7) 374 4.5 M 1492 2024-07-22 22:50:26.048 35683.840 any 199.232.70.252 112323( 0.1) 5.4 M( 0.5) 8.0 G( 0.6) 150 1.8 M 1485 2024-07-23 06:52:06.656 6783.488 any 146.75.10.172 74859( 0.1) 4.6 M( 0.4) 6.8 G( 0.5) 676 8.1 M 1489 2024-07-23 02:38:16.704 22011.392 any 151.101.160.204 6114( 0.0) 4.1 M( 0.3) 6.2 G( 0.5) 187 2.2 M 1489 2024-07-23 01:34:17.728 25851.136 any 151.101.161.190 44001( 0.0) 4.1 M( 0.3) 6.1 G( 0.5) 157 1.9 M 1489 2024-07-22 22:17:50.464 37638.912 any 199.232.154.252 69420( 0.1) 3.6 M( 0.3) 5.4 G( 0.4) 96 1.1 M 1483
-Aaron
On 7/23/2024 8:19 AM, Peter Potvin wrote:
Do you have *any* sort of additional information about this? Which source and destination ASNs, how much "a lot" is, etc? This sounds like a typical game update release cycle though without any information not a whole lot of networks would be able to confirm anything.
Kind regards, Peter
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 9:07 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1@gvtc.com> wrote:
Anyone else see a lot of Internet traffic starting at 3 a.m. and continuing even now? Seems to be spiky tcp.
-- -Aaron
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