Effective torrent blocking by HP

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Effective torrent blocking by HP

A new type of filter for HP's TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention System allows applications such as BitTorrent to be easily blocked on a network
 
If only this was not years old - blocking P2P is not new & has been around for years!!! ask any corporate company who blocks this traffic
 
Good news, this will force some more innovations in the download community - bit torrent has ruled for far too long.
 
Unfortunately this blocks legitimate uses of BitTorrent such as downloading patches for StarCraft 2 and World of WarCraft, both video games from Blizzard Entertainment.
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Awesome. If more people filter P2P, maybe it'll discourage them to do that. Does it piss off anyone else that these update apps use your uplink without your permission and you have to hunt around in the options to turn it off, if they even have that capability at all? I grabbed the CoH:Online beta, and left it downloading in the background - it totally saturated my uplink and slowed things down, and eventually I tracked it down to that app being P2P based and just maxing out my connection without telling me. This is a trend that has to stop. HTTP link, please.
 
elvis_presley said:
Awesome. If more people filter P2P, maybe it'll discourage them to do that. Does it piss off anyone else that these update apps use your uplink without your permission and you have to hunt around in the options to turn it off, if they even have that capability at all? I grabbed the CoH:Online beta, and left it downloading in the background - it totally saturated my uplink and slowed things down, and eventually I tracked it down to that app being P2P based and just maxing out my connection without telling me. This is a trend that has to stop. HTTP link, please.
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Just get uncapped.
 
elvis_presley said:
I have uncapped, which is why I specifically said "saturated my uplink" and not "ate my cap".
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On bad routers torrents can kill all other traffic. I had a TrendNET and it killed off all browsing when you started up uTorrent.
Since then I got D-Link and now I can leave my torrent downloads open 24/7 and it does not affect any other traffic.
 
Rouxenator said:
On bad routers torrents can kill all other traffic. I had a TrendNET and it killed off all browsing when you started up uTorrent.
Since then I got D-Link and now I can leave my torrent downloads open 24/7 and it does not affect any other traffic.
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Maybe a bad router would make the problem worse, but there's no way around a saturated uplink unless you specifically do some shaping. There's X bytes trying to get through a pipe that's too small; only one thing can happen. Traffic jam.

I run my ADSL through a Mikrotik over a Netgear modem, with traffic prioritization and even a bit of layer7 shaping, but when you have a crappy P2P client like that CoH updater building up massive queues, the poor router can only do so much.
 
Ive being doing this for years already. Many firewall systems do application level blocking. Many free firewall solutions to application level filtering. *yawn*

How to get around it?

Step 1) ssh -p 22 -D 8080 [email protected]

Well... thats it really.
 
Wait until HP starts using P2P to distribute their patches etc and see who has egg on face then :)
 
all this means is that there will be more http traffic for downloading from my seed box YAY :)
 
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