Re: [LARTC] Suggestions/Pointers on where to begin my search for

[Mohan Sundaram <smohan@gmail.com>]

Bill Blum wrote:
> Hi-
> I'm working in the IT department of a small liberal arts university-- 
> we're getting *massacred* by P2P traffic.
> 
> Informal testing/probing indicates that about 60% of our traffic from 
> the dorms was P2P-- we've taken the initial step of hardlimiting the 
> dorms to no more than 40% of outgoing university bandwidth.  Also, we've 
> blocked the 'standard' ports for KaZaa, Gnutella, etc. in our 
> firewall/switch setup (Cisco Catalyst 6500 between us and the net at 
> large)....
> 
> However, the Powers That Be want a better, more effective solution---   
> without a performance hit for the VOIP phones on campus.  
> 
> Any suggestions on what part of the FM I should be reading/etc, so that 
> I can make a better informed decision about how to proceed?
> 
> Regards,
> Bill Blum
> 
> -- 
> Bill Blum
> Bill.Blum@gmail.com <mailto:Bill.Blum@gmail.com>
> 
Try a Linuc m/c in between with ipp2p patch on iptables. Have you tried 
using the NBAR facility on the CISCO. That should also help.

Mohan Sundaram
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