Port 1214 restricttion

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Port 1214 rate restrictions
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Port 1214 is commonly used for file exchange by applications like Morpheus and Kazaa. However, excessive campus use of these services has been regularly claiming up to 30% of the available campus bandwidth. In order to prevent abuse of campus-wide bandwidth by a single service, the following policy is being implemented.

Beginning Saturday, December 1, 2001, all use of port 1214 that crosses the campus perimeter (i.e. through the firewalls) will be restricted to 2 megabits per second. This means that all users crossing the UIUC perimeter through port 1214 (inward or outward) will share this 2 megabit per second allotment. If few users are accessing it or the files being accessed are small, port 1214 information will travel relatively quickly; if many users are accessing it or the files are large, it will perform relatively slowly. This restriction will apply to all campus systems, not just dorm use.

This policy may affect network researchers and application developers if their research and/or applications plan for use of port 1214 across campus boundaries. If this policy will negatively affect your University-related work or research, contact the Operations Center at 244-1000 to make arrangements which will enable you to perform your research as needed.

Within-campus use of port 1214 (traffic which goes only to and from UIUC-based addresses) will not be affected by this rate restriction.

The 750 megabyte per day file transfer limit currently enforced on URHnet is a separate issue from the port 1214 traffic. No matter which 750 megabytes per day a residence hall user chooses to download, any files accessed over port 1214 from or to an off-campus location will be subject to the campus-wide rate restriction. Similarly, whether someone uses port 1214 from a dorm room, a lab, or an office, the same rate restriction applies.

http://www.cso.uiuc.edu/news/port1214.html

Is there anyway to get around this restriction? Is it possible to select a different port or something? I'm using Kazaa and i don't want to go down without fighting a little longer.

 

[Fishheads]

not really.. however... programs like icq, yahoo, msn, mirc, and such have ranges of ports they can use... i dunno if the same applys to Morpheus and Kazaa and i'm to lazy to check..

you can't pick a different port to go though cuzz only the server operates on those cirten ports..

as for getting around that.. i dunno.. be preatty hard i think

 

[damunzy]

Not sure how....but not sure you should even try. There has to be an end to all this stealing of music and other files...right?
Not saying that I am giving anything up....but what is the point of it all? Saving yourself a few bucks? Think about the people that are being ripped off. I am not talking about big corporations like MS, I am talking about smaller companies like RarSoft (WinRar). Yes the system for music sucks (having to purchase a complete CD for 1 good song...maybe more IF you are lucky) but does that mean that stealing is ok? One of the best people I know (not providing a name to protect the.....inocent?) steals MP3s even though this person knows it is wrong.

Where does it end?

BTW, anyone got Win XP? I'd hate to pay 99 bucks for the upgrade to a cpy of Win2k that I acquired.

 

[Fishheads]

has nothing to do with stealing music .. but more killing the campuses bandwith with everyone downloading p0rn off kazaa :_P

 

[damunzy]

Originally posted by Fishheads
has nothing to do with stealing music .. but more killing the campuses bandwith with everyone downloading p0rn off kazaa :_P

Ah yes, the p0rnO!