P2P packet behavior

Omnutia

I was trying to explain to Nineless how you can identify a bittorent user if you can monitor a their connection, assuming the stream is encrypted but you can see the behavior of the packet streams as well as their destination IP addresses.

As best I can understand it, a P2P connection's distinguishing features are that is attempts many connections to several different IPs then maintains a continual stream of data to several at once, sometimes upwards of 20 simultaneous connections at once and usually over a long period of time.
Knowing this, you could devise a system that looks for such behavior and throttle down any connection doing such a thing. Such systems are the reason I can only seed the Tribes 2 torrent late at night.

Questions:
1) Are there any other types of connections that could be confused with a P2P connection?
2) Did I miss anything out compared to more realistic systems?

Apreche

It would look the same if you had an FTP server with a bunch of people downloading from you at once.

Omnutia

Thanks Scott, I forgot I was trying to convey a simple idea to Nineless. It doesn't work.

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I was trying to explain to Nineless how you can identify a bittorent user if you can monitor a their connection, assuming the stream is encrypted but you can see the behavior of the packet streams as well as their destination IP addresses.

Firstly, I perfectly understood you. It is you who failed to grasp the fact that I fully understood the moronic idea you had/have. Secondly, in our chat you made not a single indication about the assumptions you made in the quote above. Thirdly, and I have told you this three times already, it's a stupid idea. To determine the 'behaviour', as you love to call it, of packets from a single IP, one would require an amount of time, resources, blind assumptions and acceptance of such inaccuracy that not a single ISP with all its clients would be able to implement it without major negative results.

EDIT:

Thanks Scott, I forgot I was trying to convey a simplestupid idea to Nineless. It doesn't work.

Omnutia

It doesn't matter Nineless. I was just trying to explain a simple example to you, it obviously didn't get through to you and you got very upset. Just chill for a while. The latest Dave and Joel is a real hoot.