From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Boxman Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 04:59:12 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] management of virus and p2p-traffic Message-Id: <200406220059.12588.jasonb@edseek.com> List-Id: References: <1087839362.4786.0.camel@turtle> In-Reply-To: <1087839362.4786.0.camel@turtle> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Monday 21 June 2004 13:36, Ralf Staudemeyer wrote: > Hi > > I have to manage a network with approx. 200 users, a 256kbit/s unmanaged > Internet connection and a 3Mbit/s unreliable managed Internet connection > (only http/ftp-proxy and ssh available). All users are in one Class C > Subnet with 512 IP-Addresses. 60% of the machines are Windows. The rest > are SUN and Linux. At the moment Windows viruses and p2p-traffic eats > most of our bandwidth. Wow. Subnets are your friend. Subnet if you can. > My question is if there are known running solutions out there that would > fit these aims? The Windows machines with their viruses give me a > headache. I do not want to enforce remote Windows patching and > virusscanner updating. It should also be taken into account that there > is nearly no money available for any special equipment. Best would be to > get this job done with a couple of old computers. I'd suggest social engineering and suggestion. See if you can get your users to clean up and tone down p2p. :) > Another question is that I want to know if it is advisable to split > traffic filtering and traffic management/monitoring. > > I would appreciate any help. > > Regards > Ralf > -- Jason Boxman Perl Programmer / *NIX Systems Administrator Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing | University of Florida http://edseek.com/ - Linux and FOSS stuff _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/