koitsu
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Mountain View, CA
| Re: Still sounds like.... Pretty unlikely; maintaining a list of all the centralised server IPs would be a real PITA (they'll change once the server administrators find out they're being blocked -- another reason p2p is shady), not to mention would bog the router down quite a bit. Routers are supposed to just blindly push packets; the more time they spend analysing IP headers, the less time they have to push packets.
Not to mention, if they were to filter p2p "effectively", they would need something like a layer 7 filtering device -- and you sure as hell won't find one of these on any ISP, since the degree of service degredation would be through the ROOF. Analysing IP headers takes enough time as-is -- analysing entire data packets for specifically-formatted strings, usually matching a regex, would take an immense amount of time. No product I know of right now from Juniper or Cisco can do this.
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