So, news. I just got confirmation yesterday that RPI will be installing some rate-limiting hardware/software to limit P2P network traffic. This is apparently (rumored) to be directly related to the report of UCI doing something similar. Ports (protocols?) that are involved in file sharing (KaZaa, etc..) will be severely rate-limited, and supposedly RESNET will only be able to use a maximum of 80% of the university's bandwidth.
I'm kinda happy about this, since I don't do much P2P sharing, and have seen the latencies to my off-campus ssh sessions go down the tubes ever since the freshmen came on board. I'll be happy if...DotCIO does it right...
