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Re: copyright infringement notices volume


From: Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:20:04 -0400

On 9/17/10 1:20 PM, Dave Inman wrote:
When these applications are blocked, they kick into overdrive to
obfuscate themselves, which increases the likelihood that they will get
around the PacketLogic's signatures. Limiting the bandwidth consumption
by shaping, on the other hand, will make the applications think that
they're working, but make them so slow that they are effectively unusable.

Have you tested this behaviour recently? I'm not sure this is either the
current state of the software or something the PL can't handle even if
BT suddenly starts using port 80.

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