Re: [squid-users] Caching P2P

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

BrianC8876@aol.com 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
Received on Sun Jan 04 2004 - 19:21:45 MST