19 Aug
2007
19 Aug
'07
10:48 a.m.
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:55:59PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: [snip]
We've been pitching the idea to bittorrent tracker authors to include a BGP feed and prioritize peers that are in the same ASN as the user himself, but they're having performance problems already so they're not so keen on adding complexity. If it could be solved better at the client level that might help, but the end user who pays flat rate has little incentive to help the ISP in this case.
Some of those maligned middleboxes deployed in last-mile networks don't just throttle, but also use available topology data to optimize locality per the ISPs policies. -- RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE