On 10/25/07, Corey Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're talking about consumer routers then you might be right, but big boy > ISP routers won't drop your packets just because it's some unknown IP > protocol. They don't care and they don't have the time to do inspection of > that sort.
The big boy routers might not care, but that doesn't prevent ISPs from inserting deep-inspection boxes into the chain--and those boxes /do/ care. From what I gather, Comcast is using boxes of just that kind to kill bittorrent traffic. > They will forward your new protocol just as well as they would TCP > or UDP. Best case: the new protocol will be forwarded until someone starts (ab)using said new protocol to overload the network, at which point ISPs will adjust their deep-inspection filtering boxes to kill off the new, objectionable traffic. And the unwinnable battle will continue to escalate. You might generate a short-lived victory by inventing some new protocol, but it won't take long for the ISPs to catch up and crush the little rebellion. :-) Chris /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
