On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > Thus spake "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > filter, and the upstream repeaters are fed by a low-pass filter. If > > too many people are fielding home servers, it affects everyone. > > So DOCSIS has a technical limitation which may or may not apply. This is > reasonable justification for limiting upstream bandwidth, not for specifying > that users can't run servers. If users can run servers effectively in the > limited available upstream bandwidth, then there is no _technical_ reason to > prevent them.
how are 'servers' (smtp/web/ftp/imap) different than the existing P2P apps? Wouldn't a cable provider, if the decision was based on upstream bandwidth sharing alone, care MORE about P2P than 'servers' ? > > Other last-mile technologies provide symmetric bandwidth yet providers still > prohibit servers; this is clearly a business issue, not a technical one. > Correct, or so it would seem... the cable modem providers can charge you more for a 'business class' service, which allows 'servers' to be hosted. --Chris (formerly [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ####################################################### ## UUNET Technologies, Inc. ## ## Manager ## ## Customer Router Security Engineering Team ## ## (W)703-886-3823 (C)703-338-7319 ## #######################################################
