For anyone who is not aware this Comcast issue does have a solutions and its called iptables… works great for those behind either the great firewall of china or the great firewall of Comcast…

http://redhatcat.blogspot.com/2007/09/beating-sandvine-with-linux-iptables.html

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From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Owen
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 4:01 PM
To: Mike Lewinski
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

On 10/19/07, Mike Lewinski <mike@rockynet.com> wrote:

With the remaining 1% being Linux ISOs.

I wonder what happens to these network police appliances (Sandvine,
Packeteer etc) when the P2Ps implement encryption and tunnel it all over
443/tcp?

They'll just monitor for streams that utilize large portions of bandwidth for extended amounts of time and throttle all. 

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Mark Owen