Re: Napster and others...

[Michael Shields <shields () msrl com>]

In article <v0422080ab4ed9bb6c397@[216.240.40.194]>,
"Erik E. Fair" <fair () clock org> wrote:
> 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.

Filtering such traffic is within the state of the art -- proxy
firewalls are not new.  But agreed that your Cisco routers cannot
stop it.
-- 
Shields.