Please 'leak' Fedora 8

Res res at ausics.net
Tue Nov 6 00:29:02 UTC 2007


On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Konstantin Svist wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
>> One of the problems with the torrent protocol is that its hard for a well
>> meaning ISP to actually proxy it and become a local source for their
>> clients.
>> 
>
> Is it actually that hard, or is it that the ISPs don't really want to invest 
> time/money into it?

To give you an idea, a net enforcer costs arounds 100K AU$ each, now one 
per PoP, thats 7 here, however the amount of p2p use, that cost is 
MORE then recovered in the FIRST month alone!

I'm sure the specialised devices that do this would probably cost around 
the same, and again would pay for itself in very very quickly.

> cache only specific releases (e.g. fedora iso) - but that would require some 
> amount of human work to decide what goes and what stays.

and here lies the problem.


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Cheers
Res





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