schoie88 wrote: > After several tests I now realise this is because the ISP blocks all > connection to P2P sites at peak times. The VASSAL server comes back > when P"P software is unblocked. More and more ISP's are blocking this > traffic at peak times. So more and more players will be kept out of > VASSAL in the evenings. Is VASSAL server seen as P2P by the ISP's? Can > this be altered?
The problem is likely to be that it's running on 'non-standard' ports. A lot of ISPs who are doing this kind of thing tend to treat anything other than web (ports 80 and 443) or email (ports 25, 110, 143, 993, 995) as suspect. This is because it's easier and cheaper (in terms of router capacity required) than real content inspection, and because at the moment they can get enough customers by equating "the Internet" with "the web" and leaving anyone wanting to do anything else to dangle. My preferred advice is that people should vote with their wallet and give their business to ISPs who believe in providing full end-to-end access to the Internet, not a walled web garden. That said, in theory anything that's client-server *could* run on port 80, and even look like valid HTTP to intervening proxies if the interfaces are re-implemented in something like SOAP. I'll leave it to the dev team to comment on how achievable or desirable that is for VASSAL... Regards, Tim.
