What you dont realize that that the majority of the traffic with p2p is *not*
the downloads themselves but instead is the 100s of clients/servers
contacting each other and exchanging directory information. The "chatter" is constant
and unrelenting. Caching p2p content is problematic in more ways than one. A
few movies will fill your cache. You'd have to either 1) discover which ports
are in use as they are variable and random or 2) "assume" that every port
*might* have content.
In reality you'd be better off just running your own supernode on your
network and have your customers/users connect to you. That effecitvely, is your
"cache". Of course you'll likely get sued, but its a better concept than a p2p
cache.
BC
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