[asterisk-biz] Is ISP Blocking VoIP

[Paul]

Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:

> perfect example...
>
<trimmed to reduce eyestrain and carpal tunnel>

> Paul wrote:
>
>>The silver lining could be there for innovative smaller providers. They
>>can sell vpn-tunneled service to those who are on ISP's that play games.
>>You don't need to use strong encryption. No ISP wants to be decrypting
>>customer traffic even if it is easily done. Blocking VPN would also be a
>>foolish thing to do. They don't want the lowest priced plans to start
>>resembling things like webtv.
>>    
>>
Suppose we take a new router that can be reflashed with linux kernel and
add the tunneling capability. That should work fine for customer
premises. I believe they can be bought new for under $60.

We want efficient tunneling and minimal encryption. If I send an email
encrypted with a decoder ring I got in my breakfast cereal, it is easily
breakable. If I can show that anybody intercepeted that email and
decoded it, I might be proving their actions are willful and deliberate.
I believe the same legal principal would deter ISP's from analyzing the
tunnel contents.

The provider should be able to handle lots of these vpn tunnels per
linux server.