Knoppix & WAIX (was Re: [plug] New releases)

[Paul Day]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Ben Jensz wrote:
> I'd be guessing that it was to do with the P2P servers that several
> groups had hosted at Central Data on WAIX only IP addresses.  Apparently
> some Uni students were hitting it hard and thrashing the Parnet WAIX
> link.  I remember seeing the MRTG for Parnet's WAIX link a while back
> and on it there was a period where one of the P2P servers was down and
> the usage hit the floor during that exact time period.

parnet's WAIX link has recently gone to 100Mb/s FDX. Back then it was only
10Mb/s.

> So you can probably blame the leeching WAIX P2P kiddies at Uni.  I
> wouldn't blame the people in control for doing whatever they could to
> block that stuff.

I'd probably put more blame on the fact that routing RFC 1918 IPs across a
large heterogenious WAN really isn't sensible.

PD

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