[100240] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Spaeth)
Fri Oct 19 18:52:29 2007
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:04:29 -0500
From: Eric Spaeth <eric@spaethco.com>
Reply-To: eric@spaethco.com
To: Clinton Popovich <crpopovi@nauticom.net>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
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Clinton Popovich wrote:
>
> For anyone who is not aware this Comcast issue does have a solutions
> and its called iptables… works great for those behind either the great
> firewall of china or the great firewall of Comcast…
>
> http://redhatcat.blogspot.com/2007/09/beating-sandvine-with-linux-iptables.html
>
The resets are sent in both directions, so that would only work if
everybody who uses BT filters reset packets (not likely). That solution
does have the added benefit that it will likely break other applications
though.
-Eric
