In article <5ud2avF1gr13uU1@mid.individual.net>,
"Ivor Jones" <ivor@thisaddressis.invalid> writes:[color=blue]
> "Al Paca" <Al-Paca@lostsomewhereinperu.com> wrote in
> message
> news:vng2o3h7t54vri6100d2p1bb0qupnbn3qt@news.individual.de
>: : On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:15:51 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
>: : <ivor@thisaddressis.invalid> wrote:
>: :
>: : : and they can't if you're the other side of a NAT
>: : : router anyway.
>: :
>: : I'm not sure that is completely right.
>
> Well that's what I was told, I have no first hand experience as I refuse
> to use the thing on principle.[/color]

That matches my experience. I was allocating real/routable IP
addresses on my home network. When lots of family came to stay
over Christmas, I noticed loads of broadband traffic going all
over the world when no one was apparently doing anything, and
initially thought their laptops were riddled with viruses.
On closer investigation, it was all Skype traffic. (Don't use
Skype myself, only RFC VoIP.) I changed my network config to
dish out NAT'ed 192.168 addresses and the problem went away.
I presume the windows laptops stopped being supernodes.

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Andrew Gabriel
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