Re: Blocking Skype

Volker Tanger wrote:
> > Nice writeup. But why? Why block Skype? It it really worse than MSN or
> > GoogleTalk? 
>
> For one you can't be sure what the program actually does - or did I miss
> someone doing a reverse engineering, esp. of the protocol and the "P2P"
> part?

I would be interested in this...

> In contrast Text-IM uses a number of magnitudes less bandwidth. 

Sure, bandwidth is an issue, and it's probably hard to bandwidth-control/traffic 
shape Skype. But GoogleTalk can also do voice, and there are other voice 
programs out there.

But as many has pointed out, you will also get traffic that does not belong to 
the end-client within your network. That is a negative aspect in this setting. 
Do we know what kind of traffic that flows in the node/supernode topology that 
Skype setups? I was unaware that actual voice traffic can flow through any node.

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//Morten Torstensen
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If you ever go temporarily insane, don't shoot somebody, like a lot of
people do. Instead, try to get some weeding done, because
you'd really be surprised.