Re: Napster and others...

["Erik E. Fair" <fair () clock org>]

Any operator trying to control which applications are used on their 
networks has either never learned, or already forgotten, the lesson 
of "fsp, NASA, and OZ."

Precis: they (developers, users) can modify the application to use 
spread-spectrum style port numbers that constantly change throughout 
the life of a session, which makes it effectively impossible to 
filter using existing technology.

Sean Doran has it right: be glad this is bulk TCP (fsp was UDP 
based), and turn on RED.

        Erik <fair () clock org>