On Tue, 2006-21-03 at 11:20 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:08 PM -0500 "Alex F. Evonosky"
> <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Also be aware that many MSO's and ISP's are deploying mitigation
> > appliances (e.g. Sandvine) in their networks to mitigate P2P to a
> > substantial rate decrease. Also, Sandvines can limit the number seeds
> > per client, just an FYI.
>
> How smart are they? Are they port-based? I configure non-standard ports for
> my BT client. Some of the newer BT clients can even encrypt the stream with
> peers so that content analysis is stymied. That leaves traffic behavior as
> the remaining method to identify P2P.
No they are Layer 4 {Application Layer}.
The system looks at the data in the packet, to determine what
kind of traffic it is.
The latest Azureus, supports Transport Encryption that foils
this method.
