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Re: Dragonfly
From: Max Groft <mgroft () MCDANIEL EDU>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:41:36 -0400
Di Fabio, Andrea wrote:
Are there institutions using Dragonfly from http://www.dragonfly.com ? If so, I would be interested in hearing if you are shaping this application's bandwidth or have taken any other measures to throttle it down and control the IP addresses it talks to. One of our department has purchased the software and it seems to be very bandwidth thirsty. In addition the P2P model they are using seems not to handle RFC1918 IP addresses so our internal sensors are triggering when Dragonfly tries to connect to a peer over a private IP.
Our athletics department is using it. We keep it limited at all times except for an agreed upon span of time from Saturday night into Sunday morning. We use the Packetshaper scheduled commands to turn the limits on and off. It is extremely demanding and before we enforced the limit, it caused degradation of service for everyone even when it was not supposed to be in use. Max -- Max Groft Systems and Network Administrator/Programmer McDaniel College, IT Department (formerly Western Maryland College) Email: mgroft () mcdaniel edu Ph: 410-857-2746 FAX: 410-386-4694
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- Re: Dragonfly Max Groft (Oct 29)
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