On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 08:48 +0800, Daniel Cheng wrote: > 2008/9/26 Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org>: > > On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:16, sich wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I post here to inform the dev about some problem from one french user (he > > doesn't speak english). He have send a message on fms board fr.freenet. > >> The original author is : herb at > >> 5FeJUDg2ZdEqo-u4yoYWc1zF4tgPwOWlqcAJVGCoRv8. > >> I have copy / paste is message at the end (if some people understand > > french). > >> > >> > >> Apparently he encounter connection problem between 18H and 23H. > > > > After 23H it works again? > >> > >> When there is no problem Freenet run fine, emule without encryption to. > >> But when he have difficulty only emule with encryption can connect. > >> > >> You can find some connection stats here : > >> > > USK at > > tK4-kA2nUwT39pA3io4POy78FIKObVxwUDKSoe57~MQ,glwvhnN-YQi6miDYdQOkafBJVyR2cNxIN7AHx1L6ev4,AQACAAE/flog/23/content-7892B290.html > >> > >> Herb says that he think that Freenet is filtered. Is Internet Provider > > probably use QoS. > > > > Sounds like they block p2p traffic during peak hours to improve performance > > for everyone else... > >> > >> What can we do to avoid this connection problem ? > > > > Well, if encrypted emule CAN connect but Freenet can't, there is something > > *very* strange happening! What does encrypted emule look like from a network > > level? SSL? > > > emule use "protocol obfuscation", > tradition emule send a signature byte, followed by the data in plain text. > > In "protocol obfuscation" mode, it begin with some random bytes and > use that byte to start a DH key exchange. I can't see how this > stronger then the one using in freenet. > > see > http://wiki.emule-web.de/index.php/Protocol_obfuscation#Technical_implementation > and http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/EDKObfuscation >
As far as I know emule uses TCP for data transferts... that's the difference. What we could do is to implement a TCP transport... or better: what I like to call "transport plugins" (a generic framework to make freenet's traffic transit over virtually anything, including steganographic transports).
