Steven Alligood wrote: > What on earth would make you believe that you are in any conceivable way > a peer to an Internet Service Provider?
Not sure if you're deliberately trying to be funny here. Who said anything about "peering" as in ISPs. So peer-to-peer networking and file sharing is inconceivable? The internet was designed with the idea that each node on the internet was both a client and a server. Nodes, therefore, were intended to be peers to each other. Meaning that any one node can reach another node. Over the years ISPs have been eroding this original design, inserting layers of NAT between nodes, preventing them from acting in a peer-to-peer function. This breaks much of the original internet design. For example, FTP cannot work without help (obsoleted by sftp though). VoIP is similar disadvantaged, requiring STUN and other NAT traversal hacks. Recently I went to try out echolink (a HAM radio gateway system) only to find out that NAT'ed networks don't allow echo link to work, since it's a peer-to-peer system (make sense as it's an extension of ham radio). /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
