Comcast blocking p2p uploads
Mike Lewinski
mike at rockynet.com
Fri Oct 19 20:51:52 UTC 2007
Mark Owen wrote:
>
> On 10/19/07, *Mike Lewinski* <mike at rockynet.com
> <mailto:mike at rockynet.com>> wrote:
>
> With the remaining 1% being Linux ISOs.
>
> I wonder what happens to these network police appliances (Sandvine,
> Packeteer etc) when the P2Ps implement encryption and tunnel it all over
> 443/tcp?
>
>
> They'll just monitor for streams that utilize large portions of
> bandwidth for extended amounts of time and throttle all.
Which seems completely fair and reasonable to me, and likely won't
require very expensive layer 4-7 packet shapers either. Plus they can
just state that flat limit in their contract and NANOG will issue a
collective yawn.
It just seems to me that the more Sandvine type applications are
deployed, the sooner we will burn that bridge out from under us.
Then again, I saw the first Packeteer in action nearly 3 years ago and
predicted it would only take 6-9 months before encryption became widespread.
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