Idea to hid p2p traffic

[trunolimit]

So I'm taking a CCNA course at ,I'd rather not say, and I learned that how you can tell what type of traffic a packet is, is by the protocol it uses. All p2p traffic really needs is a way to segment data and put it back together. what p2p apps can do is use another protocol so the routers and the ISPs can all think that p2p packet is something else. They can maybe use the HTTP protocol instead of their p2p protocols and the ISP's would have no way of telling web surfing traffic apart from p2p traffic.

Any networking buffs in here think this could work? or is it a dumb Idea. If it is please explain why.

This is my first networking class so I'd like to learn as much as possible, I hear that CCNA test is a bitch.

[smeerkaas]

I think that no matter what protocol you use, it will be pretty easy to recognize p2p traffic by it's volume and routing characteristics.

[trunolimit]

does anyone else think that there comcast costumers should sue. I'm sure that shaping users traffic without their knowledge is a breach of contract. I sign up for cable because I get a certain amount of promised bandwidth. No where in the contract dose it say only certain applications qualify for that bandwidth. Personally I think it sucks that we are stuck with one cable provider Dependant on where you live. I would love to be able to chose my own cable provider and not force fed some crappy company. I live in new york city which means time warner cable. Every time I call for a service issue there greeting massage is we are currently experiencing service interruptions in the following areas...I have never called them and not heard the we are currently experiencing service interruptions message. Cable sucks anyway verizon has got the right idea with their whole FIOS thing.