Re: Peer to Peer Blocking

[Gary Flynn <flynngn () JMU EDU>]

Jason Richardson wrote:

> We're also using a Packeteer packet shaper.  We don't squeeze the P2P
> traffic down to nothing but we do throttle it back considerably.  The
> copyright complaints haven't stopped but they have slowed down
> substantially from last year and the year before that.  I don't know how
> much of that we can attribute to packet shaping and how much should be
> attributed to a change in tactics by the copyright holders and their
> agents.

Our situation is similar. There always appears to be a
fair amount of unknown, unclassified traffic that gets
by unscathed however.

--
Gary Flynn
Security Engineer
James Madison University

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