[K12OSN] Squid / Socks

daniel.hunt at iibbank.ie daniel.hunt at iibbank.ie
Wed May 19 12:21:37 UTC 2004


-----Original Message-----
From: Josiah Ritchie [mailto:jritchie at bible.edu]
> Bloody pessimists :o)
> 
> Hmm ... I didn't realise it'd be so much work to shut off everything
except
> what I want to allow :s
> Bloody
>
P2P-programmers-giving-people-that-don't-know-anything-about-networking-the-
tools-to-entirely-subvert-network-security-without-them-having-to-even-think
-once-about-it is more like it. It's actually a very significant issue at
colleges across the world (or at least the US, I assume the world).

I couldn't have put it better myself :D And yeah, I noticed in college that
there's no file transferring at all in ANY im program.

That didnt stop myself and a friend writing a java chat room with video and
voice chat capabilites, not to mention a VERY good file transfer system that
works through proxies last year. Quite proud of it to be honest :)

> Here's a thought, bandwidth throttling might not be as hard to do and
> would keep the port from jumping. You could throttle the P2P port being
> used to 3K of bandwidth and that's going to discourage large usage, but
> not cut it entirely.

throttling eh? Nice idea ... and how would one go about doing that? As it
would also solve another big problem of mine - my sis (again *sigh*) using
up all of the available bandwidht on her beloved McFly webboards and
whatever else she looks at.

Cow :)

Daniel


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