No offense, but could you guys take this discussion out of this list please?
It is interesting, but IMHO, it eally doesn't belong here. Thanks, Murrah Boswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What you dont realize that that the majority of the traffic with p2p is *not* > the downloads themselves but instead is the 100s of clients/servers > contacting each other and exchanging directory information. The "chatter" is constant > and unrelenting. Caching p2p content is problematic in more ways than one. A > few movies will fill your cache. You'd have to either 1) discover which ports > are in use as they are variable and random or 2) "assume" that every port > *might* have content. > > In reality you'd be better off just running your own supernode on your > network and have your customers/users connect to you. That effecitvely, is your > "cache". Of course you'll likely get sued, but its a better concept than a p2p > cache. > > BC
