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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