Interesting article, and something I think that will certainly becaome an issue for ISPs. Is this a real issue ISPs are thinking about? Via The Register: [snip] Encrypted P2P networks will soon make bandwidth management based on deep packet inspection obsolete, says Staselog, a Finnish appliance outfit. Around 80 per cent of all traffic in the Internet is already P2P. This traffic will increase 1,000-fold in the next five years and most of it will be encrypted P2P, according to a study by Staselog and researchers at Finnish Universities. [snip] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/01/darknets_fox_traffic_manage_tech/ Overlooking the point that this kind of smells like a pitch for Staselog, I'd be curious to hear of this is an issue on ISP bandwidth management radar... or already is... - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/