Re: classifying P2P traffic

[Shumon Huque <shuque () ISC UPENN EDU>]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:04:41PM -0600, John Kristoff wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:18:55 -0600
> "Julian Y. Koh" <kohster () NORTHWESTERN EDU> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Does anyone just do that, per /32 (or something slightly larger),
> limiters or dropping knobs and not bother trying to classify the app?

We've been doing exactly this for about 6 years now - per /32,
application agnostic, only for the dorm networks, and the rate
limits are applied at the campus border(s).

--Shumon.