I believe a significant number of people who have
AMPRNet addresses
and are BGP-connected really don't care much about communicating
with other IPIP mesh-connected hosts; their interest is the rest
of the Internet.
Of course traffic mostly tends to be local and we see some IPIP mesh
traffic to stations in the area that are IPIP mesh connected, including
country networks like Germany.
Most traffic is between AMPRnet addresses connected on radio or VPN,
and between those and internet.
It is understandable, because many IPIP mesh stations are small islands
at the other side of the world and there is little chance that someone
here would want to send a lot of data to them.
On the other hand, connections internal to our network are used to
interconnect repeaters (both voice and ATV) and for things like echolink
and they transport a lot of data, mostly local.
Since there's no way to capture flow data for
these folks, we'll
never know where their traffic is going. All we can do is guess
from anecdotal data.
Maybe we can setup some ip flow export...
Rob