From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mohan Sundaram Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:21:00 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Suggestions/Pointers on where to begin my search for Message-Id: <44EDB2FC.7080201@vsnl.com> List-Id: References: <6aa4d09a0608240632q47de4e83k89f6de0eb078bdd4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6aa4d09a0608240632q47de4e83k89f6de0eb078bdd4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 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 > 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 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc