Re:Freeware (Score 1)

This is the mistake that is always made. You can take any OS or just about any network device and do some kind of QOS with ports and IP's. However, that is completely useless if the application can disguise itself as something else. If Napster can be configured to use port 80, you will give it just as much bandwidth as you do normal web browsing. My point was that Packeteer has a huge database of application signatures that can deal with this issue and, yes, they put effort into doing this so that they can make money. Even if you put enormous effort yourself into figuring out how to throttle Napster now, ehat are you going to do about Gnutella, or AIM, or whatever is the next bandwidth hog that comes out next year? Fb