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Re: classifying P2P traffic
From: "Julian Y. Koh" <kohster () NORTHWESTERN EDU>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:18:55 -0600
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 08:49 -0600 1/29/2008, Youngquist, Jason R. wrote:
What devices are you using to monitor P2P traffic and how well are they working for you? Is there some P2P traffic that you believe your monitoring software isn't catching? Ie. encrypted traffic, outdated P2P definitions from the vendor, etc.
We use a Packeteer PacketShaper. It definitely doesn't handle the encrypted P2P file transfers that well, which led to our having to create dynamic subpartitions for our dorm/wireless/VPN IP ranges to limit unclassifiable traffic to 512Kbps per host based on IP address. But overall it seems to be working quite well with that arrangement. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 9.7.0.1012 wj8DBQFHn0PfDlQHnMkeAWMRAoDzAJwMlppTnevV1YGjkuetY5ZOyS6M+QCeKjHi LyozUrch8glp6RgLmTKnEOk= =4azQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Julian Y. Koh <mailto:kohster () northwestern edu> Network Engineer <phone:847-467-5780> Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern University PGP Public Key:<http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html>
Current thread:
- classifying P2P traffic Youngquist, Jason R. (Jan 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: classifying P2P traffic David Boyer (Jan 29)
- Re: classifying P2P traffic Consolvo, Corbett D (Jan 29)
- Re: classifying P2P traffic Greene, Chip (Jan 29)
- Re: classifying P2P traffic Hughes, Scott (Jan 29)
- Re: classifying P2P traffic Justin Dover (Jan 29)
- Re: classifying P2P traffic Julian Y. Koh (Jan 29)
- Re: classifying P2P traffic Alex (Jan 29)
- Re: classifying P2P traffic Harris, Michael C. (Jan 29)
- Re: classifying P2P traffic Michael Hornung (Jan 29)
- Re: classifying P2P traffic Michael Hornung (Jan 29)
- Re: classifying P2P traffic Lutzen, Karl F. (Jan 29)
- Re: classifying P2P traffic jkaftan (Jan 29)
- Re: classifying P2P traffic Alex (Jan 29)
- Re: classifying P2P traffic Samuel Young (Jan 29)
- Re: classifying P2P traffic Cal Frye (Jan 29)
- Re: classifying P2P traffic John Kristoff (Jan 29)
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