Re: Dragonfly

[Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () UTC EDU>]

Matthew Gracie wrote:
> 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.
>
> Our athletics department has this, and it is indeed an incredibly
> bandwidth-greedy application. We've got it in a throttled class using
> our Packetshaper, which seems to be mitigating the resource use.

Yes, it stinks to high heaven.  As does XPressPlay, another favorite of
our athletics department.

Dragonfly is a rather specific protocol.  XPressPlay is essentially
BitTorrent.

We let our Procera's volume based shaping sort them out.

Jeff