Will any of the 2.X releases for OS X include the ability to disable the supernode feature like the Windows 3.0 release? I'd be curious if this is planned for the Linux client as well. I don't have a problem rolling out a group policy for Windows users but we have a lot of Mac users since we develop for both platforms. Please advise.

-Gary

Future features are never confirmed until they are launched You can send feat. requests using Jira (+info at my signature).

Perhaps including this info on your university and other security might be useful as that's the first place I looked for an answer to this issue. Are unix clients too small a user base for consideration of these features? I'm just curious as to why this capability hasn't filtered down to the other clients yet. From my observations with tcpdump, using an HTTP proxy server does not disable this feature as it still allows inbound connections from other clients. The only workaround I've found so far is to use something like URLfilterDB. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the inbound connections I'm seeing? Your docs in the security center state that HTTP or SOCKS5 proxied clients can't become supernodes but how am I supposed to verify this?

Thanks,
Gary

Other clients are in different developing stages. Windows version currently is 3.x.x and Mac version is 2.6.x, not to mention Linux is still at 2.0.x, but the plan is that all versions will have the features present in the Windows client.

But when every feature is gping to be included is never known until it's first released. This has been explained many times on forum, I beg you to use Search feature.

We are in the same boat. We have allowed Skype for Windows on our University network but are under a lot of pressure to allow Macs to use Skype as well. The lack of a roadmap from Skype doesnt do their reputation a lot of good and leaves us looking a bit daft. I think that Skype should come clean about their intentions if they are to be taken seriously as a business tool.