[squid-users] Caching P2P

2004-01-03 Thread Matt
Will Squid or anything similiar and open source ever support caching P2P? http://www.cachelogic.com/products/cp1000.php It would be quite helpful but likely very complicated. The bandwidth savings could be huge and I think that is what Squid is all about. But there are also the legal issues. M

Re: [squid-users] Caching P2P

2004-01-03 Thread damk
I think cachepliance works like http://www.peribit.com, it caches ``packets'' the technology peribit uses is MSR ``applies pattern-matching techniques used in genetic research to identify and eliminate repetitive data traffic'', so everything will be cached. Totally different with squid and other

Re: [squid-users] Caching P2P

2004-01-03 Thread Joel Jaeggli
A company called joltids makes a product called p2pcache that acts as a cache for fastrack based p2p traffic... I suspect the diversity of p2p platforms the relative size of the files and the legal ambiguity of turning around and offering materials may potentially be unlawful, the makes caching

Re: [squid-users] Caching P2P

2004-01-04 Thread BrianC8876
What you dont realize that that the majority of the traffic with p2p is *not* the downloads themselves but instead is the 100s of clients/servers contacting each other and exchanging directory information. The "chatter" is constant and unrelenting. Caching p2p content is problematic in more ways

Re: [squid-users] Caching P2P

2004-01-04 Thread OTR Comm
No offense, but could you guys take this discussion out of this list please? It is interesting, but IMHO, it eally doesn't belong here. Thanks, Murrah Boswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What you dont realize that that the majority of the traffic with p2p is *not* > the downloads themselves bu