How efficient is IPFilter.dat ?

[mranonymous10]

I'm running windows vista - I finally got the IPfilter.dat thing to work in utorrent since Peer Guardian isn't compatible yet with vista. Can anyone please explain how efficient the IPfilter.dat is, compared to Peer Gaurdian? I also noticed, in utorrent and many other torrent clients, if I look at my peers, many of their IPs are really random ; like 1234.whoohoo-132.mx.com, and things like that. Is there a purpose for this? Does it disguise the IP address?

[Switeck]

Disable Resolve IPs under the Peers Window. (That's expensive window-dressing considering it doesn't help download+upload speeds any.)

Then you'll see the "bare" ips.

ipfilter.dat should be equally as effective as Peer Guardian for TCP traffic. DHT traffic it may NOT be as effective, but if you have that disabled then there shouldn't be a problem with that.

ipfilter.dat prevents µTorrent from ever starting an outgoing connection to a blocked ip and blocks incoming ips that match its list after they briefly connect to you but before they transfer any meaningful data. Peer Guardian works the same way as far as I know.

HOWEVER, hostile monitoring ips STILL get your ip as being *ON* the torrents they're watching whether they can connect to you or not (because ipfilter.dat blocks them). In that regard, Peer Guardian and ipfilter.dat are both totally INEFFECTIVE!

If your goal is only to eliminate hash fails by blocking hostile ips, then both Peer Guardian and ipfilter.dat should work...BUT it's up to you to add the bad ip ranges to ipfilter.dat or Peer Guardian! (New ranges probably appear at the rate of once a week!)

[mranonymous10]

Oh, I see now. So , either way, they both do the same thing.

Thanks !