[IP] An outage because Comcast is managing p2p traffic?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Steven M. Bellovin [smb@cs.columbia.edu]
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 11:02 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: An outage because Comcast is managing p2p traffic?

My cable modem service was out for eight hours yesterday.  Tests I did
-- ICMP could get through to various destinations; TCP could not --
make me believe that the problem is due to Comcast trying to treat p2p
traffic differently.  See
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2008-04/2008-04-06.html for more
details.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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