Hello everyone

I've a senario and i would appreciate some comments and suggestions on it

I take internet service from my cable provider who has put bandwidth restriction on its user and doesn't allow P2P applications 2 b run.. but i'm able 2 pass this restriction by using free proxy servers...

My question.

If i put my self in my cable provider's shoe how can i ensure that nobody crosses the bandwidth restriction by any means including proxies and P2P or any similar service.

Please clear my concepts...

I hope this question is relevent here.If not mods please move to the right forum.

Thanks

If you're able to do something with the overall bandwidth limit (as a user), your ISP has a bad configuration. With Linux I'd use build in traffic-shaping (QoS options in the kernel). My personal favourite method is CBQ. You can read about it more in Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/, chapter 9 and later).

With proxies it's harder - when the traffic is encrypted, the ISP can't do anything with it. Of course, users can be limited to using only port 80 (and a small number of others), but the restriction is then too big.