I've run web and ftp servers even on both Bell and Rogers connection before. Not particularly high traffic (the upload on residential connections wont allow for a high traffic site), but I've certainly run them before without a problem. I imagine that p2p is a bigger problem than ftp and web traffic in terms of bandwidth use, but web, ftp, and mail servers are a greater concern for liability. Easier to say they aren't allowed so you have the legal slack to shut down any 'problems' that arise. People running hate-speech websites and the like from home machines, people setting up open-relays for mail servers, etc. I don't think they intend to shut down hobbyists or budding comp sci students.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Byron Sonne</b> <<a href="mailto:blsonne-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org">blsonne-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> AFAIK, their real concern is someone running an FTP or Web server<br><br>I've been running an ssh server for a good 9 years now and never had a<br>problem. But I've also done huge, I mean hug, scp between home and
<br>several places, work, etc. Never had an issue.<br><br>It's lead me to the conclusion that they only start paying attention to<br>things when you're on a busy subnet/segment/whatever. Then it probably<br>wouldn't matter what you were doing if they were under the squeeze...
<br>but I'll bet they look for web, ftp and p2p traffic before they pay<br>attention to ssh.<br><br>--<br>The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: <a href="http://gtalug.org/">http://gtalug.org/</a><br>TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
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