What are HEAnet Ltd doing in this bittorrent monitoring report? (1 Viewer)

[pete]

HEAnet is Ireland’s National Education and Research Network and provides cutting edge Internet and associated ICT and e-Infrastructure services to Educational and Research organisations throughout Ireland.

http://heanet.ie/about

From http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~tpc/Papers/P2PMonitor.pdf

Table 3. ASes suspected of engaging in direct monitoring.

Number of Monitors AS Name
467 23504 Speakeasy, Inc.
202 174 Cogent/PSI
114 209 Qwest LLC
39 558 Net2EZ
17 27699 TELESP
17 1213 HEAnet Ltd

Two of these ASes (AS558 and AS1213) have previously been identified in the study by Potharaju et al. [18] as potential harbourers of monitoring agencies

Interesting

 

[singer]

They identified the AS, not the network block. AS1213 covers most educational institutions in the country. It could be research, or it could be actual monitoring done by one of the many institutions connected to AS1213.

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

HEAnet have in the past notified some of the institutions they ISP for of torrent traffic originating from their network.

 

[pete]

They identified the AS, not the network block. AS1213 covers most educational institutions in the country. It could be research, or it could be actual monitoring done by one of the many institutions connected to AS1213.

ah right - so possibly some other academics doing exactly the same type of research?