Re: Opinions regarding Packeteer Packetshaper & alternatives

["Julian Y. Koh" <kohster () NORTHWESTERN EDU>]

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At 15:43 -0500 10/24/2005, Gaddis, Jeremy L. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am interested in hearing opinions on Packeteer, Inc.'s PacketShaper
> product as well as any opinions of competing devices.

It works well as long as you keep its limitations in mind.  It's not a
firewall, it can fall over if you pump too many flows through it, and overall
the architecture is very dependent on keeping the CPU in a non-starved state.
 Classification, especially of newer apps, can be a little bit of a pain
sometimes, but the prevailing sentiment seems to be that it does just about
the best job out there in that arena.  I don't envy them the task of trying
to keep up with the latest P2P apps, that's for sure.

There's a pretty active mailing list run by Stanford.  To
subscribe/unsubscribe, send email to majordomo () lists stanford edu
with "subscribe packeteer-edu" or "unsubscribe packeteer-edu" as the body.
Archive is at <http://www.stanford.edu/group/networking/netlists/>.

While we bought it primarily to do the bandwidth control stuff, it has
morphed into one of our leading security incident response tools as well.

The company itself is pretty responsive and helpful with issues.


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Julian Y. Koh                         <mailto:kohster () northwestern edu>
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Telecommunications and Network Services         Northwestern University
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